Yasmani Grandal Fangraphs Quotes & Sayings

I suspect you knew: to live is to be irradiated. It is a sacrifice, this life. — Ander Monson

Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo enough to considering using antiseptic techniques. — Candice Millard

There is time, and then there is timelessness. And if you're lucky, and if you can be still enough, observant enough, you may be able to know and speak about that intersection of time and timelessness, or time and eternity. — Wendell Berry

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe. — Blaise Pascal

project sought to establish a language that would enable the world to be comprehended in its totality. The name of this system of significations varied with context: sometimes it was called Reason, sometimes History, sometimes Science - but I prefer to call it Westernese. For this language game arose from extrapolating a very specific reading of the West and projecting it into the future as the destiny of the planet. — Salman Sayyid

Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the offer down raised the possibility that I might not have done. — Hugh Laurie

Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even the car he drove, was a sign of him trying to be a force for good in this world. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done. — ASAP Rocky

The joy of the journey itself is not only a key goal, it is the goal. The outcomes of the journey, whatever they are, will always be in the zone of the unknown. While you're getting to where you're going, though, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the greatest show on earth, the moment-by-moment process of consciousness itself. — Gay Hendricks

He was very well aware that in their eyes the position of an unsuccessful lover of a girl, or of any woman free to marry, might be ridiculous. But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin. But — Leo Tolstoy

The thing was the thing that implied the greatest number of other things of the sort he had had to tackle; and it was queer of course, but so it was - the implication here was complete. Not — Henry James

Steel and temper, daughter. — Cassandra Clare