Griffer In English Quotes & Sayings

This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims. — Matthew Arnold

The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific. — Mason Cooley

You are not defining your purpose - your purpose is defining you. — Bryant McGill

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ... — Gertrude Atherton

Even when I'm writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I'm looking into my own heart. — Kay Kenyon

The simultaneity of near and far confused me; I thought it possible to find the past, the present and the future united in one place, giving it all that life can hold; but I had grave doubts that at any given moment life might reign both here and there, on this side and that side of the seas and mountains. And such doubts, demanding resolution, may have inspired earliest journeys: I went forth, not to learn what fear was but to test what the names held and feel their magic in the flesh, just as, at the open window, you feel the miraculous power of the sun you'd long seen reflected on distant hills and spread on dewy meadows. — Annemarie Schwarzenbach

People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out. — Greg Maddux

I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom
and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment! — Gail Carson Levine

A predator on land is prey in the sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When water is still, it is like a mirror, reflecting the beard and the eyebrows. It gives the accuracy of the water-level, and the philosopher makes it his model. And if water thus derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind? The mind of the Sage being in repose becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.22 [59a] The fluidity of water is not the result of any effort on the part of the water, but is its natural property. And the virtue of the perfect man is such that even without cultivation there is nothing which can withdraw from his sway. Heaven is naturally high, the earth is naturally solid, the sun and moon are naturally bright. Do they cultivate these attributes?23 [63b] — Alan W. Watts

This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money ... they do make too much money, but the only way we've figured out how to generate wealth in this world is through the market economy. — Joe Klein

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far ... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together. — Gary D. Schmidt

There was only now [ ... ] There was no tomorrow because tomorrow was the excuse. There was now or there was nowhere. — John Le Carre

Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument. — Lemony Snicket