Grosso Modo Quotes & Sayings

Properly speaking, there are no barbarian standards. Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. The varying degrees of culture are measured by the greater or less precision of the standards. Where there is little such precision, these standards rule existence only grosso modo; where there is much they penetrate in detail into the exercise of all the activities. — Ortega Y Gasset

Change only happens in the present moment. The past is already done. The future is just energy and intention. — Kino MacGregor

at first sight everyone seems like human. — Arzum Uzun

It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity, whether ethnic or religious, in order to live in harmony with their brothers and sisters. If we are honest in presenting our convictions, we will be able to see more clearly what we hold in common. — Pope Francis

He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits. He was clever in melodrama too, but too broad
too broad. When the mother died, he took the port-wine business.'
'The port-wine business!' cried Nicholas.
'Drinking port-wine with the clown,' said the manager; 'but he was greedy, and one night bit off the bowl of the glass, and choked himself, so his vulgarity was the death of him at last. — Charles Dickens

Whoever said misery loves company was full of shite. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, however ... that guy was onto something. — Stephen King

I begin with writing the first
sentence - and trusting to Almighty
God for the second. — Laurence Sterne

Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth. — Lee Labrada

I hope I always deserve you — A Meredith Walters

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night. — Glenn Close

Just the kind of girl I liked - the weirdo in the bunch. — Anthony Kiedis

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb. — Louise Slaughter

I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that."
"You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all."
"But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick. — Michael Cunningham