Grittily Quotes & Sayings

I'm proud of you, and I love you, Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgement, giving him not just a rope of acceptance to hang onto, but a flesh-and-blood hand to lead him out of the darkness of his past ... And into a future that didn't require lies or excises, because of what he was, and what they were, was both extraordinary
and nothing out of the ordinary. Love, after all, was universal. — J.R. Ward

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions. — Thomas Sowell

It was all right to hope and noble to strive, but in the end it was doom alone which would count. — Stephen King

Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. — Andrea Barrett

I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker ... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform. — Cory Booker

I am a hot-blooded fire and I am fearless. — Amy Schumer

I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them.
-Pia — Jessica Khoury

This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about. — Rudyard Kipling

That vervey spontaneity became encounter theater therapy under the direction of the Marquis de Paar, who was peerless at grittily vapid chatter, misty bathos, and scenery-chewing controversy. Dick Cavett, who wrote for Paar, said that working for him was like having an alcoholic in the family. — James Wolcott

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks. — Newt Gingrich

Christmas makes everything twice as sad. — Douglas Coupland

I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity. — Liza M. Wiemer