Groth Quotes & Sayings

Then there was the shame of the writer who doesn't write. The me who carried within my breast in equal shares the conviction that I could write and the certainty that I could not. Here all the problems of shame over childhood inadequacy and adult insecurity and sexual insecurity ganged up to produce periodic bouts of thwarted attempts. — Janet Groth

Trying to appeal to everyone is almost sure to fail, for the simple reason that everyone wants something different! — Seth Godin

To be truly present we have to stop our thinking. This is the secret of success. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice. — Robert Benchley

Do not wallow in your mistakes. Do not grovel and prostrate yourself in hopes of forgiveness. We all make mistakes. Apologize and move forward. Do not replay the event in your head. Do not continue to beat yourself up. Do not profusely explain, defend yourself, make excuses or blame. After you apologize, do no more explaining; never explain more than once - ever. — Bryant McGill

Does your uncle need anything? A coffee? A latte?"
"He needs someone to bear his illegitimate child if you're interested — Darynda Jones

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds — Fela Durotoye

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies. — Fan Bingbing

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else. — A. Nicholas Groth

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth. — Andrew Cohen

You'll want to aim for the head. That usually makes for a fatal shot. Or, if you're feeling shaky, the torso. It's a larger target." "Your head looks pretty big from here." He — Marissa Meyer

India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides. — Narendra Modi

What would you do if you were not afraid ? — Spencer Johnson

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness. — Oliver Goldsmith

...he said apropos of nothing one day, "No talk about 'relationships,' understood?" I think I did have the presence of mind to ask, "Why?"
"It's a waste of time," he said. "The existentialists have it right. Whatever is the case, is. No amount of talk is going to change it. The only thing we have to feel responsible for to each other is to pay attention to what's happening between us. It either is or it isn't. — Janet Groth

Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story. — Nick Earls

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics. — Luis Gutierrez

It's time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease. — William H. Stewart

Repeat after me: I deserve to be here.'
'I deserve to be here!' Harry and Dave declared, and I mumbled along with them.
'No one can take my dance space away from me,' Vicky intoned, and the three of us repeated her words.
'And finally: I don't care if anyone thinks I look stupid.'
'But I do look stupid,' I pointed out, as Harry yelled out his affirmations.
'So do I,' Vicky said. 'But I don't care. — Leila Sales

Every fifteen minutes or so the harvest moon would bleed through the tourniquet of cloud cover that conspired to squeeze every droplet of pictorial sentiment out of the Skagit landscape in order that a more refined Chinese moon might brush the countryside. In the aloof washes of moonlight no form seemed to stir. — Tom Robbins