Gritty Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling. — Daniel Wu

I don't understand, Blue said. Something in her ached, though, like she did understand, but couldn't put words to it, wrap her thoughts around it. She felt like she was a part of a dream this place was having, or it was a part of a dream of hers. — Maggie Stiefvater

We are only victims if we allow ourselves to be. — McCartney Green

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed. — Leander Paes

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead! — Sigmund Freud

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. — Ernest Mandel

Communicate, communicate, and then communicate some more. — Bob Nelson

God is alive and faithful to make something beautiful out of us...God won't abandon us...He's going to replenish it all. He's carrying us in his arms, no matter how bruised or broken we feel. He's planting beautiful seed for our journey - seed that's thriving even among the barren months. — Bonnie Gray

Alchemy is glorious, gritty, and gruesome, forcing one to mature spiritually."

-from my weblog posted today on diavirginia — Dia Virginia Rigden

I would go and ask his wife. I tell you, we want more home piety just now. If a man doesn't treat his wife right, I don't want to hear him talk about Christianity. What is the use of his talking about salvation for the next life, if he has no salvation for this? We want a Christianity that goes into our homes and everyday lives. Some — D.L. Moody

A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem. — George C. Marshall

Let thy holy temple be thy body. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see what horseshit it was in the first place. — Norman Spinrad