Grosbeak Quotes & Sayings

But for all its miseries, there was an unmistakable allure to the jockey's craft ... Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relative weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. When a horse and a jockey flew over the tack together, there were moments in which the man's mind wedded itself to the animal's body to form something greater than the sum of both parts. The horse partook of the jockey's cunning; the jockey partook of the horse's supreme power. For the jockey, the saddle was a place of unparalled exhilaration, of transcendence. — Laura Hillenbrand

I finally decide I'm just going to stab him a thousand times with a ballpoint pen. — John Green

Hearing anyone think that I'm any form of sexy or handsome is incredibly flattering. — John Krasinski

Do not become angry and furious ...
for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire. — Sufyan Al-Thawri

Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move. — Celia Thaxter

No words could possibly contain all he has to say. He manages to utter, at last, I'm okay, and this is enough for now. — Lauren Groff

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire: the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love. — George Eliot