Grittiness Means Quotes & Sayings

Why can't you give me a straight answer?"
"Why can't you ride me like a pony?" He scowled straight back at her, unrepentant. "Don't pretty girls like ponies? I thought they did. — Kylie Scott

Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead for forty years, he's still making new records. Suck on that, Partnership for a Drug-Free America! — Bill Maher

Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life. — Suze Orman

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way. — Ben Webster

Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level. — Daniel Marques

Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and as they should be. — Edgar Johnson

I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft. — Harriet Walter

If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes. — Jane Goodall

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. — Simone Weil

We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts. — Richard Branson

When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it." — Fran Lebowitz

My story isn't a pretty one. The bumps in the road were monumental and infinite. But it's my story. And the one thing that holds true is this... Despite the hardships, I made it through to the other side. — Jessica Prince

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. — William James

We are poor in spite of all our wealth because we have much, but we are little.' As a result, the average man feels insecure, lonely, depressed, and suffers from a lack of joy in the midst of plenty. Life does not make sense to him; he is dimly aware that the meaning of life cannot lie in being nothing but a 'consumer.' He could not stand the joylessness and meaninglessness of life were it not for the fact that the system offers him innumerable avenues of escape, ranging from television to tranquilizers, which permit him to forget that he is losing more and more of all that is valuable in life. — Erich Fromm

Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into European
or later
United States
capital, and as such has accumulated on distant centers of power. Everything: the soil, its fruits nad its mineral-rich depths, the people and their capacity to work and to consume, natural resources and human resources. — Eduardo Galeano