Gristedes Upper Quotes & Sayings

You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want. — Spencer Johnson

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself. — Stephen King

You must have faith in God. — A.B. Simpson

But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the problem he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker. This is the paradox - in the West ego is taught, in the East egolessness is taught. But in the West it is easy to dissolve the ego, in the East it is very difficult. — Rajneesh

There is only one way this can end: with the kind of defeat that makes a people feel that their preachers have lied to them, their leaders have deserted them, that the world is against them and that God is dead. — Ken MacLeod

We can only change what we are willing to face and acknowledge - this is the first step in the change that will be hugely positive in your life. — P. Seymour

A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless. — Marie Helvin

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests. — Idries Shah

I have a sixth sense for things I don't want to know and her manner pegged this as top of the scale ignorance-is-bliss material. — J.F. Lewis

The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. — Curtis Bean Dall

I love revisions ... We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. — Katherine Paterson

In our society, we no longer pride ourselves on being educated, knowledgable, well-read. We prefer, instead, the illusion of erudition. — Michael Perkins

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. — Renzo Piano

The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise. — Steven Pinker