Gritten Quotes & Sayings

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk. — Joshua Lederberg

It is a childish notion that once established, our boundaries will never be transgressed again...We shall have to stand for ourselves repeatedly for the rest of our lives. As we practice doing this, we come to greater ease...Eventually it may float over entirely into the positive realm - becoming only another chance to demonstrated our worthiness. — Maureen Brady

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember. — Samuel Johnson

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

All men die," Jelme went on, ignoring the outburst. "It could be tonight, next year, or in forty years, when you are toothless and weak. All you can do is choose how you stand when it comes. — Conn Iggulden

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age. — Paullina Simons

In this stupid world, most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set. — George Eliot

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers. — Dan Quisenberry

Few coffee shops have books, fewer have good books, and even less will have one book that can change your whole life. Now, the question is: How many people can find that book? And, among those who do, how many will read it? Because, you see, life always provides opportunities, but not many can see them, when they're just there, waiting to be found, when they come our way, even if in the most unexpected place in the world. One has to be very sharp to recognize a window of opportunity in a wall of illusions. And the ability to redirect attention, demands that one can be capable as well of knowing his own limitations in the vast sea of energy and vibrations. Now, I could be talking about a book, a group or a person, as the axiom remains true to itself. — Robin Sacredfire

You speak as though I were someone very great, — Anonymous

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble — Paul Krugman

It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you. — Ernest Rutherford

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered] — Howard Fast

I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion. — Chaka Khan