Grismer Quotes & Sayings

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion. — Samuel Gompers

That sounded like something Mother would say, throwing color onto a black-and-white picture. — Ruta Sepetys

People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny. — Robert Thurman

It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out precisely similar nonsense for the aggravation of the next generation. "Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. Take up the literature of 1835, and you will find the poets and novelists asking for the same impossible gift as did the German Minnesingers long before them and the old Norse Saga writers long before that. And for the same thing sighed the early prophets and the philosophers of ancient Greece. From all accounts, the world has been getting worse and worse ever since it was created. All I can say is that it must have been a remarkably delightful place when it was first opened to the public, for it is very pleasant even now if you only keep as much as possible in the sunshine and take the rain good-temperedly. — Jerome K. Jerome

I go through about half a dozen spiral notebooks a year. They are my friends, just like the to-do lists. They keep me organized. — David R. Wommack

Tears are part of the leeway of the common areas of a hospital, since so many have to do their crying away from the patient's bed. You don't care who sees you cry in the lobby: it was port of entry for all the sorrows, and one gave up all one's previous citizenship at the border. — Paul Monette

Gossiping is the plague of little towns. — George Sand

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change. — Bill Drayton

I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much. — James Purefoy

The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I'd measure my progress in inches. One more inch I've swum - one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody's river can bring you down. — Bette Greene

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words. — Eckhart Tolle

If anyone tries to bully you don't let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it. — Ariana Grande

Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord. — Saint Augustine

why are so many people fighting so hard to do it? I had even convinced myself that it wasn't a big — La La Anthony