Grtkin Quotes & Sayings

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid! — Terry Pratchett

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted. — Eartha Kitt

Yet they are just the kind of people who transform the world and, after many mistakes, manage to do something that can make a real difference in their community. — Paulo Coelho

The traditional joke stereotype of the board is 'the unworthy appointed by the unwilling for the unnecessary'. — Bob Garratt

If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the person, you are in misery. And attachment is such a disease that if the person is not there you are in misery, and if the person is there you are indifferent. Then it is okay; it is taken for granted. If the person is there it is okay - no more than that. If the person is not there, then you are in misery. This is attachment. — Rajneesh

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also. — George Santayana

'Punch-Drunk Love' is my favorite movie. — Domhnall Gleeson

I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity. — Leila Janah

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be ... any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins. — Andrea Barrett

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so. — Josh Billings

There was a feeling I wanted to feel that I did not feel. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that. — Bono

The reality is we are still ranked 10th and we are playing a team ranked second in the world who are playing at the top of their game and are at home. — Dav Whatmore