Grouchos Orangeburg Quotes & Sayings

he should accept with patience the tribulation which has actually been dealt out to him - the present anxiety and suspense. It is about this that he is to say 'Thy will be done', and for the daily task of bearing this that the daily bread will be provided. It is your business to see that the patient never thinks of the present fear as his appointed cross, but only of the things he is afraid of. Let him regard them as his crosses: let him forget that, since they are incompatible, they cannot all happen to him, and let him try to practise fortitude and patience to them all in advance. For real resignation, at the same moment, to a dozen different and hypothetical fates, is almost impossible, — C.S. Lewis

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong. — Howard Dean

Why, Wally," he said. "Except for leaving out the part where Tom continues to be a homicidal maniac, it's all the truth. — Donald E. Westlake

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion. — Matthew Arnold

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space. — Debra Dean

She was a stranger, but not just any stranger. She was "the stranger". And of course, that was the difference that made everyone's emotions stranger. — Shannon L. Alder

Any guy afraid to die was a guy who was afraid to live. — JoAnn Ross

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics — Kurt Vonnegut

There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless. — Frederick Lenz

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield

Poetry is an act of peace. — Pablo Neruda

She's like a kindness ninja. Sneaking around in order to help people. — A.S. King

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. — Lao-Tzu