Grubbiest Quotes & Sayings

Once, when I'd needed to meet Daniel to deliver a warning from Jeremy, I'd worn two-inch heels and had quite enjoyed the sensation of talking down to Daniel, until he told me how sexy I looked. Since then he'd never seen me in anything but my oldest, grubbiest sneakers. — Kelley Armstrong

Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians. — William Prynne

Love is joy and happiness.
Love is purity in it's true form.
Love covers multiple of sins. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning. — Simone De Beauvoir

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author. — Isobelle Carmody

Incredulity is not wisdom. — Charles Spurgeon

Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imaginary chance at more life, the desperate, terminally alive sad people turn to expensive placebos for a chance to imagine a decent life. — Sarah Perry

The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Civil War was the climax of a tragedy that was preordained from the time of the Revolution. Only with the elimination of slavery could this nation that Jefferson had called "the world's best hope" for democracy even begin to fulfill its great promise. — Gordon S. Wood

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable. — Salman Rushdie

All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information. — Eugene H. Peterson

The greater the number of prescriptions, the more people's sense of personal responsibility dwindles. — Hans Monderman

Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having. — Laura Mullen

Freelancing requires such strict adherence to toadyism, to sycophancy, to the grubbiest, lowliest submissions. It is an on-spec life and it is full of what can only be described as insane serendipity (or serendipitous insanity). — Richard Morgan

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'. — Martin Firrell

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. — Emily Bronte