Grits Book Quotes & Sayings

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours. — Vernon Howard

The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts
not to give it joy, but to give it a grand and somewhat gaudy sense of virtue. The essay is a weapon against the degenerate tendencies of the age. The novel, properly conceived, is a means of uplifting the spirit; its aim is to inspire, not merely to satisfy the low curiosity of man in man. — H.L. Mencken

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist ... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world. — Warren Mitchell

Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. — Georges Braque

Loving someone deeply brings you closer to God. It is a humble admission of weakness, through which God's strength is made perfect. — Lillian Katungwa