Grousing Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement of every reasonable goal, as well as the establishment of any permanent social or political relationships. — Germaine De Stael

I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning. — Ray Dalio

Our mental models aren't reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters use to predict the weather. But, as we know all too well, sometimes the forecast says rain and, boom, the sun comes out. The tool is not reality. The key is knowing the difference. — Ed Catmull

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. — William H. Hunt

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments. — Diana Peterfreund

Land is a nation's basis for existence. The nation has its roots like those of a tree deep in the country's soil whence it derives its nourishment and life. There is no people that can live without land, as there is no tree which can live hanging in air. — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Drunk wi' power," he remarked disapprovingly to the ceiling. "Verra unwomanly attitude, that. — Diana Gabaldon

Anger can be managed to become
emotional content that raises power. — Toba Beta

Love is the bridge between the earth and the spiritual. — Grace Sara

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all. — Richard Wagner

Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom. — Aeschylus

People's entire lives can be uncovered in phones. Maybe — K.A. Tucker