Gradgrind Hard Quotes

#1. Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#2. No, I have slept enough, and I like looking outside. It makes me hopeful. There is nothing like God's sunshine to cheer you up.

Dorothy Clark

#3. When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.

Benjamin Whichcote

#4. It always comes back to just letting go with love. Just put the love in it. Whatever it is, and if you can't put love in it, don't do it!

Bhagavan Das

#5. One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsage to make a simple and direct statement. So what is one to do? The dilema needs a whole volume to itself.

Max Beerbohm

#6. I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

Che Guevara

#7. You don't need to know how. You just make up your mind and it happens.

David Levithan

#8. The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

Peter Gabriel

#9. This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden - so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#10. Effective PMs simply consider more alternatives before giving up than other people do.

Scott Berkun

#11. I've heard people say that you have to tip-toe around a woman's emotions, but a man's ego is every bit as fragile, if not more so.

Trisha Wolfe

#12. Nietzsche was a revelation to me. I felt that there was someone quite different from what I had been taught. I read him with a great passion and broke with my life, left my job in the asylum, left France: I had the feeling I had been trapped. Through Nietzsche, I had become a stranger to all that.

Michel Foucault

#13. Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow.

Udai Yadla

#14. Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself.

Edmund S. Lee

#15. The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

Lew Wallace

#16. Being from a Christian family doesn't make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage -

Terri Blackstock