Grittiest Female Quotes & Sayings

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true. — Idries Shah

The secret of survival was to balance hope and despair — Rohinton Mistry

The art of happiness is being content with what you have,' she would say, looking with apparent satisfaction out of the dusty windows at the garden, yellowing like an uncut hayfield in the October sunshine. — Philippa Gregory

One more thing. She wears Patchouli. Every tart in Montmartre wears it. Place Pigalle reeks of it. If she wants to carry out her pose as an aristocrat, she ought to refine her tastes. — Susan Vreeland

The desperate resilience,the annoyed flamboyance;his personable passivity and his phobic aggressiveness; all trapped in the clever wrinkles of his fingers, the hard unsociable cast of his knuckles, the safe hopelessness of the pads. — Brandon Shire

I know supposedly God has anger, vengeance, and wrath, and if he doesn't have a sense of humor I'm in big trouble! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability. — Wes Fesler

My beauty and independence were new for me. They brought me pride and satisfaction; they changed my sense of possibility. I felt awake in my body. Living in the woods, building my little shelter each night, a silent shadow, drifting in and out of mountain towns, a ghost, I was entirely self-reliant. On the trail I had persisted despite fear, and walking the Pacific Crest had led me deeply into happiness. I felt amazing now. In this body that brought me twelve hundred miles, I felt I could do anything. — Aspen Matis

He could never see a belt without hitting below it. — Margot Asquith

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood. — Lucan

Yeah, I do. HipHop was, though I would not say all, cause I try to keep myself open to other things, but nearly all I listend to for the last 14 years of my life. — DJ Shadow

We can't expect to effectively move forward with half the population carrying sandbags. — Lauren Fleshman

99% of failures come from people who make excuses. — George Washington