Grinling Gibbons Quotes & Sayings

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks. — Natalie Clifford Barney

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite. — Stefan Zweig

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent. — Sefi Atta

We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ's righteousness. — John Calvin

Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you. — Jandy Nelson

We often commit foolish mistakes in trying to be smart — Siddharth Joshi

But these self-appointed teachers lack personal experience, and do not even listen when others speak to them. Relying solely on their own self-assurance, they order their brethren to wait on them like slaves. They glory in this one thing: to have many disciples. Their main objective is to ensure that, when they go about in public, their retinue of followers is no smaller than those of their rivals. They behave like mountebanks rather than teachers. They think nothing of giving orders, however burdensome, but they fail to teach others by their own conduct. Thus they make their purpose obvious to all: they have insinuated themselves into a position of leadership, not for the benefit of their disciples, but to promote their own pleasure. — Kallistos Ware

The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping. — Virginia Postrel

I knew about loyalty about putting family before all others. I'd already learned some things I'd do to protect my own. I'd withold infomation from the police. I'd use people. I'd lie. If pushed hard ... how far would I go. — Kim Harrington

Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right. — Francesca Lia Block

I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that, in a lab, people are on a level playing field. — Tim Hunt

Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed. — John Green

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends. — William Shakespeare

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls. — Rodney Atkins