Gratis Quotes

#1. But it was a dreadful kind of curiosity, the kind that makes you peek through your fingers during the scariest parts of a scary movie.

Stephen King

#2. I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Lee Trevino

#3. We are saved gratis, by grace. We do nothing and we deserve nothing; it is all, absolutely and without qualification, one huge, hilarious gift.

Robert Farrar Capon

#4. The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.

David Steindl-Rast

#5. I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.

Richard Branson

#6. Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

Swami Satchidananda

#7. We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.

Nina Tassler

#8. For once, fate us taking a problem off our hands gratis. Let's smile, say thank you and stay the hell out of it!

Karen Chance

#9. Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

Adam Smith

#12. Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010.

Charles Krauthammer

#13. Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

Jay Inslee

#14. I'd argue that contemporary hip-hop is written (or at least the music is) to be heard in cars with systems like the one below. The massive volume seems to be more about sharing your music with everyone, gratis!

David Byrne

#15. Don't they understand that in order to acquire an opinion what is needed first of all is labor, one's own labor, one's own initiative and experience! Nothing can ever be acquired gratis. If

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her
as long as it's a diamond

Evan Esar

#17. Everything that has value has its price. Nothing worth having is ever handed to you gratis.

Gertrude Lawrence

#18. While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

Narendra Modi

#19. Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes;
And galvanism has set some corpses grinning,
But has not answer'd like the apparatus
Of the Humane Society's beginning,
By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.

Lord Byron

#20. A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

David Steindl-Rast

#21. What if I failed and lost? I had been in a million fights on the streets

Mike Tyson

#22. I paid, got up, walked
to the door, opened
it.
I heard the man
say, "that guy's
nuts."
out on the street I
walked north
feeling
curiously
honored.

Charles Bukowski

#23. Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower,
which must be cautiously cared for
and protected,
from the harsh elements
of human weather.

ELLE NICOLAI

#24. The act of seeking is essential to life.

Mark Fraley

#25. Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock - and before a notary - you'll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we'll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please.

Woody Allen

#26. Teach the ignorant as much as you possibly can: society is culpable for not giving instruction gratis, and is responsible for the night it produces. This soul s full of darkness, and sin is committed, but the guilt person is not the man who commits the sin, but he who produces the darkness.

Victor Hugo