Gvozdich Quotes & Sayings

To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all. — Rubin Carter

It occurred to him that spite was a kind of methadone for lovers. Was it better to go cold turkey? Perhaps not. — Stephen King

Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving. — Anna Kamienska

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be! — Abraham Cowley

An atheist may, of course, also feel clean after taking a bath and dirty without one, but the mikveh ritual, associating outer hygiene with the recovery of a particular kind of inner purity, like so many other symbolic practices promoted by religions, manages to use a physical activity to support a spiritual lesson. — Alain De Botton

I still maintain that the times get precisely the literature that they deserve, and that if the writing of this period is gloomy the gloom is not so much inherent in the literature as in the times. — Bill Styron

I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria. — William Styron

There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry? — James Harvey Robinson

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older. — Erica Jong

Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal. — Chris Guillebeau

There were marches, of course, a lot of women and some men. But they were smaller than you might have thought. I guess people were scared. And when it was known that the police, or the army, or whoever they were, would open fire almost as soon as any of the marches even started, the marches stopped. — Margaret Atwood

Self-satisfaction is the ultimate thing one can achieve in life. — Manish Pradhan

I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there. — Laura Marano

Reading is the least laborious of all the tasks that fall to the student's lot. — Marcus Fabius Quintilianus