Gronlund Objective List Quotes & Sayings

Your eternal destiny will not be the result of chance but of choice. — Randall K. Bennett

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values. — Johan Huizinga

The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years — Allen Ginsberg

This was one of those situations in which the whole is not enough. Perhaps because there were other "wholes," or because the "whole" made up by the speaker and his personal world rotates like a planet, and the combined effect of rotation and orbital movement is to keep certain sides of certain planets permanently hidden. — Cesar Aira

We curl up on the couch together, under a blanket, whisper I love you, I missed you, confusing tenses I think. — Lorrie Moore

Friendship never forgets that its only reason for existing is to love other people. — Paulo Coelho

The most loving women are the women who will test you the most. She wants you to be your fullest, most magnificent self. She won't settle for anything less. She knows it is true of you. She knows in your deepest heart you are free, you are Shiva. Anything less than that she will torment. And, as you know, she's quite good at it. — David Deida

Pray interrupt me if there is any inference which is not perfectly clear to you. It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated."

-Sherlock Holmes-
-The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes- — Arthur Conan Doyle

If you want to know about Africa, read our literature
and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America. — Chris Abani

You never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice. — Frederick Lenz

In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events. — Edmund Morgan

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current. — William Peter Blatty

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved. — Helen Keller