Top 32 Gritting Quotes
#1. Hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even though it's painful and you're afraid.
Caroline Knapp
#2. The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.
Roger Altman
#3. I closed my eyes, gritting my teeth against feeding into her insanity. "I've obviously lost my mind." "Me too," she agreed as though I was actually speaking to her. "Years ago. Just let it wander. It's much more fun.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#4. I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile.
True, I said, gritting my teeth as I wrapped a water-soaked napkin about my hand. Men tend to be very colorful when you're picking shrapnel out of them.
Diana Gabaldon
#5. Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#6. Sometime bravery involves giving up everything you have ever known ... but sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting you're teeth through the pain, the slow walk towards a better life.
Veronica Roth
#7. Is it all right if I call you Jenna?" he asked.
"If I can call you Wolf," she said.
He scowled, gritting his teeth. "Could you please call me Adam?"
"All right," she said. "I will try and think of you as a wolf called Adam.
Cinda Williams Chima
#8. Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
Richard J. Foster
#9. The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.
Patrick Rothfuss
#10. Nick pressed a finger onto the table. "Would you bust him out of prison?"
"No," Zane answered immediately.
Nick sat back, eyebrows climbing high. "No?"
"No," Zane said again. He poured another glass, gritting his teeth. "I wouldn't let him make it to a cell."
"How is that not enough?
Abigail Roux
#11. His fingers brushed the outline of the bronze disc hanging beneath his tunic. Haydn jerked his
hand away, gritting his teeth as he tried to block the memories. The clashing of steel. The screams and cries of battle. They fled, replaced by flames. Shadows. Pleading and tears.
Hope Ann
#12. My heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass
but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.
Haruki Murakami
#13. No amount of determination will bring freedom. We're going to learn to be victorious by surrendering our lives completely to the Spirit of God, not by gritting our teeth and trying harder.
Beth Moore
#14. Panic threatened but was beaten into submission by her will to live. Elena P. Deveraux had never given up yet. Gritting
Nalini Singh
#15. Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#16. There's something sexy about a naked woman gritting her teeth in pain, even when it shouldn't be sexy.
Travis Luedke
#17. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.
Veronica Roth
#18. She stared up at him and for an instant his expression went soft all over her before he turned away, gritting his teeth.
Dean felt her gentle touch everywhere, in places he'd never thought about before.
Like his heart.
Lori Foster
#19. Ian stepped closer to her, gritting his teeth. "We're no' babies. We're seasoned warriors."
She affected a big shudder " Ooh, I'm scared
Kerrelyn Sparks
#20. I'm waiting for the magic word." "Um, now?" "Really?" "Asshole?" "Come on." "Clark!" "Vivian." "Oh, fine. Please help me, Clark. Please, please, please?" I managed, gritting my teeth. "That wasn't so bad, was it?" he smiled, his face lighting up.
Alice Clayton
#21. Where's your kilt?"
"How about this," he said in a low voice. "You don't ask me about haggis and bagpipes, and I won't ask you about garlic and Goodfellas.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#22. Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.
Romano Prodi
#24. But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#25. I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.
Will Rogers
#26. True freedom comes from being unknown.
Ruth Ozeki
#27. If you don't have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.
Steven Tyler
#29. Love is based on respect. Fear doesn't respect anything, including itself. If I feel sorry for you, it means I don't respect you. You cannot make your own choices.
Miguel Ruiz
#30. Trying to cut the deficit too far, too fast isn't working. The government must adopt a steadier, more balanced plan to get our deficit down and take immediate action now to support the economy and create jobs here in Britain.
Ed Balls
#31. Craziest thing I ever did for love? It's all crazy. None of it makes any sense, does it, when you're in love with someone. It doesn't make any logical sense. I guess that's why they call it being in love.
Vince Vaughn
#32. Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.
John W. Roper
