Grace Bowman Quotes

#1. Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

Sarah Fielding

#2. Work is what people do to survive. That kind of work is rarely interesting, least of all to the people who are doing it. The things we choose to pursue in our own time are what matter.

Ryan Quinn

#3. I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

H.L. Mencken

#4. God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am so grateful.

Thea Bowman

#5. And they clapped they loved they worshipped him. I picked up sticks out of my hair. Dirt up off my tongue. I felt the loving smears go in. The loving blood. I felt water rushing in my brain. I dead the heart. I am for you alone.

Eimear McBride

#6. Out of forty-nine suits which he had, he never lost one but seventeen; the rest he gained with costs, double costs, treble costs sometimes; but even that did not pay.

Maria Edgeworth

#7. There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.

Lefty Kreh

#8. All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.

Landon Parham

#9. I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

Michael Bloomberg

#10. See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works, it works every time with every person

Bob Proctor

#11. We always take ourselves back to the start to try and find out why things happened; to try and force some blame into some day or some month or into some half-shaded memory.

Grace Bowman

#12. These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

Tahir Shah

#13. An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

Sara Sheridan