Grltf9 Quotes & Sayings

In the midst of this hormonal gloom, however, the calvary finally arrives, over the hill, jangling its spurs, and epaulettes shining in the sun: my green library card. Now I'm 13, I can get adult books out of the library, without having to borrow my parents'cards. And that means I can get secret books out. Dirty books. Books with sex in. — Caitlin Moran

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in. — Marv Levy

I've always looked at myself and criticized myself first, and that's the way I'm always going to be. — Tim Lincecum

This is not just an abstract point. What I mean is that power has a social function. Its role is not just to enforce domination or to create winners and losers: it also organizes communities, societies, marketplaces, and the world. Hobbes explained this well. Because the urge for power is primal, he argued, it follows that humans are inherently conflictual and competitive. Left to express that nature without the presence of power to inhibit and direct them, they would fight until there was nothing left to fight for. But if they obeyed a "common power," they could put their efforts toward building society, not destroying it. "During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war," Hobbes wrote, "and such a war as is of every man against every man. — Moises Naim

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards. — Seal

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub. — Henry Ward Beecher

It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. — Emma Watson

And Lenore had served each child several cups of the Simmons eggnog, which was 75 percent rum and 25 percent nog. When they came to pick the children up, all four were stumbling around her living room in a drunken stupor. — Fannie Flagg

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?]
We won't know for a few years. — Stephen Hawking

Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155). — Mark Salzman

I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland. — Orlando Bloom

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work. — Sally Field

Twilight, I'm sorry, is about a very unhealthy, toxic relationship. She falls in love with this guy and the second he leaves her, her life is over and she's going to kill herself! What message are we sending to young people? That is not going to help this world evolve, — Shailene Woodley

God's creation is a life-giving inhale for all of us, and Sabbath is the exhale. — Shelly Miller