Grippe Quotes & Sayings

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. — David Sedaris

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. — Idries Shah

How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then. — Nicholas Sparks

Feeling sure that I would learn something and at the same time get rid of a severe bronchial cough that followed an attack of the grippe and had troubled me for three months. I intended to camp on the glacier every night, and did so, and my throat grew better every day until it was well, for no lowland microbe could stand such a trip. — John Muir

I cross two fingers, a binary precaution against hex, effective as superconductor or simple superstition. — Neil Gaiman

Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should be studied by all academicians, students, legislators and lawyers. — Nancy Kassebaum

Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then. — Rebecca Harding Davis

If you are not a trend setter, at least be able to exploit the ones you see. — Jeffrey Fry

Too much sleep is bad for your health, Matilda." She slipped a freshly made ball of butter into a stone crock. "It must be such a grippe, a sleeping sickness. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer. — William Mountford

If this was so, I was sunk, for by now I was more in love than I could stand, as if some mineral had got into my veins and arteries and I ached, flesh and bones, the way you will on the verge of the grippe. — Saul Bellow