Ssss Gridman Quotes & Sayings

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being. — Henri Nouwen

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States. — Stephen Kinzer

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best. — Gyalwa Dokhampa

Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. — Karyn Kusama

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts. — Mahatma Gandhi

You have to be able to accept failure to get better. — LeBron James

If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed. — J.C. Ryle

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one. — Louis Farrakhan

Imagination, she figured, just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. It would be like telling someone what sex felt like, or an orgasm. Impossible. But once you felt it yourself, you could then imagine varying degrees of this new sensation. — Hugh Howey

The plane that had taken off from Baltimore was caught in bad weather, which meant the Derridas missed their connection at Boston. Derrida found this delay and the whole chaotic journey a real trial. On the flight the following day, he spent the whole time tense and hunched up, clenching his fists tightly. And when Marguerite coaxed him to relax, he replied, furiously: 'Don't you realize that I'm keeping the plane in the air by the sole force of my will?' He was traumatized for a long time, and for several years he refused to get back into a plane. — Benoit Peeters