Whiff Of Grapeshot Quotes & Sayings

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe. — Billy Graham

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom. — Thomas Jefferson

When meter is honored over thythm, line over syntax, form over structure, even the most prodigious manipulation of traditional patterns may be rendered purely decorative. — Ellen Bryant Voigt

The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot — Napoleon Bonaparte

Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one really believed in it until very close to the end. But it was also a sanctuary. I was working in obscurity. — Joshua Oppenheimer

On Beauty

No, we could not itemize the list
of sins they can't forgive us.
The beautiful don't lack the wound.
It is always beginning to snow.

Of sins they can't forgive us
speech is beautifully useless.
It is always beginning to snow.
The beautiful know this.

Speech is beautifully useless.
They are the damned.
The beautiful know this.
They stand around unnatural as statuary.

They are the damned
and so their sadness is perfect,
delicate as an egg placed in your palm.
Hard, it is decorated with their face

and so their sadness is perfect.
The beautiful don't lack the wound.
Hard, it is decorated with their face.
No, we could not itemize the list.

Cape Cod, May 1974 — Zadie Smith

That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series. — Deyth Banger

When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while
holding me by the hand, ...
Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am
silent, I require nothing further,
I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of
identity beyond the grave,
But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied,
He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me. — Walt Whitman

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more. — Patrick Delany

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe — Maxwell Maltz

The truth behind the truth is this: even if you are a victim, you must never be a victim. Even if you deserve to be one. Because while you wait for somebody to come along and set things right, life has moved forward without you. — Augusten Burroughs

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you belong to Jesus Christ, you are called to live a life of purity and holiness. God wants your mind to be shaped by Him so that your thoughts and goals reflect Christ. — Billy Graham