Bishop Vital Grandin Quotes

#1. I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.

Melody Beattie

#2. One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Andre Malraux

#3. In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

Bernie Sanders

#4. The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.

Richard Russo

#5. All Newfoundlander men can knit.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#6. I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one

Susanna Clarke

#7. The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don't really exist for them. It's not about whether they like it or don't; it's just not very important to them.

Abbas Kiarostami

#8. It's part of growing up, I suppose ... you always have to leave something behind you.

Neil Gaiman

#9. I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

Howard Fast

#10. And the best way to strengthen willpower and give students a leg up, studies indicate, is to make it into a habit.

Charles Duhigg

#11. During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

Daniel Boone

#12. Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Aristotle.

#13. Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

George W. Bush

#14. In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.

Wright Morris