Gumming Grandma Quotes & Sayings

I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States. — Sebastian Faulks

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals. — Tacitus

That which yields is not always weak. — Jacqueline Carey

Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional. — Kathleen Casey

If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips — Steven Furtick

Given that Socrates was effectively assassinated by poison, you might think twice before accepting his invitation to breakfast. — Robert Rowland Smith

It is always the case that both victim and perpetrator suffer the consequences of any acts of violence, oppression, or brutality. — Eckhart Tolle

And then, when I understood this world, I would be my own person. Not even the Prince of Greed could stop me. As for my demon, she slumbered in my mind and warmed my soul. She was the whisper in my ear, the voice of desire and hunger. I would not forget who or what I was. Half-human, half-demon, damaged, but oh so wonderfully free. — Pippa DaCosta