Griper Quotes

#1. You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

Wendell Berry

#2. Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

Keith Murray

#3. Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

Eric Gill

#4. The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.

Burt Shavitz

#5. Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#6. The problem is that the worldview I've chosen has melted like butter. I had a plan, and the plan is gone.

Shauna Niequist

#7. What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

Roger L'Estrange

#8. To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

John Henry Newman

#9. Every time, I try to make something different.

Barbet Schroeder

#10. My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

Bjorn Lomborg

#11. Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Oriana Fallaci

#12. Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

Michael Tilson Thomas

#13. Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#14. No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone."
"If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much."
"Without a life," Rosa answered, "a person lives where they can. If all they got is thoughts, that's where they live."
"You ain't got a life?"
"Thieves took it.

Cynthia Ozick

#15. Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.

Peace Pilgrim

#16. I mentally savored the moment of America's triumph like a fine wine.

Gene Kranz