Grimwarden Quotes & Sayings

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. — George Packer

I've been thinking about it, and I still don't understand exactly why what I said hurt you so much. But I don't need to. It hurt you, and when you told me it hurt you I should have apologized and stopped saying whatever it was. And maybe spent some time trying to understand. Instead of insisting that you manage your feelings to suit me. And I want to say I'm sorry. And I actually mean it this time. — Ann Leckie

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves. — Christopher Hopper

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't. — Gerard Depardieu

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families. — Sandra Fluke

At the vital point of truth, we all become a conscientious objector. — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

You're no mistake. I can tell. Even though I can't catch your scent, my animal is pushing me to take you. — Milly Taiden

What are you up to?" she asked.
"Why would you think I'm up to anything?"
Her lips pursed before she said, "You wouldn't be you if you weren't up to something."
He smiled at that. "I do believe that was a compliment."
"It wasn't necessarily intended as such."
"But nonetheless," he said mildly, "that's how I choose to take it. — Julia Quinn

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation. — John Adams

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude. — Greg Giraldo

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public. — Abram Hoffer

unless a person learns to set goals and to recognize and gauge feedback in such activities, she will not enjoy them. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi