Growney Quotes & Sayings

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering. — Dalai Lama

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block. — Mary Garden

This challenge turned out to be brunette. Feisty. Just the way I like them. But innocent. Too innocent for me. Too innocent to do anything other than sample and toss back. Anything more would be too risky, too much work. — Alessandra Torre

The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue. — Marian McPartland

The market gives you the opportunity to arbitrage what the emotional investor will pay or sell at versus the fundamental value of a company, but you've got to pull the trigger promptly without hesitating. We've disciplined ourselves mentally and prepared ourselves in terms of information, as well as relationships with brokers, to do that. — Richard Chandler

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools. — Walter Winchell

Honestly - who puts a hamburger next to diet tofu curry unless they're trying to buy your soul? — Amy Lane

Some legends say that Hera's breast milk sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way. I don't know. That seems like a whole lot of solar systems from just one squirt — Rick Riordan

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question. — Michael Shaara

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. — John Abercrombie

That's how it is with infants. The minute the pain's gone, so are the tears. If more people would do that, the world would be a happier place. — Susan Wiggs

Nervousness from earlier surged back into me. Goodness. He was honey poured over an athletic body. Short, sandy-blond curls outlined his face, which boasted full lips, high cheek bones, and long lashes that any woman would envy. Even with those soft features, his face appeared hard and sculpted by an artist. — Kenya Wright

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use. — Maurice Merleau Ponty