Grotty Monday Quotes

#1. As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?

Haruki Murakami

#3. An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year, says Zoroaster.

Voltaire

#4. Feeling good in front of the coal stove in a cold day? That's good, but over there you must also feel the sorrows of the miners! In heaven, don't forget the people in hell!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

Brian Andreas

#6. He had an instinct for mischief in his head, just as some people have a way with numbers or a clear sense of direction.

Stephen King

#7. Hope is a song in a weary throat.

Pauli Murray

#8. In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. In short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

Charles Dickens

#10. Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Terry Pratchett

#11. The stressful part of that is that you're not a chef. People who have learnt to be chefs have spent years in kitchens just on the vegetable section and then move up to the fish section, etc, whereas you have to do everything and it's really full on, but it's an amazing experience.

Jayne Middlemiss

#12. The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

Lynn Crilly

#13. When you learn to harness the power of your fears, it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams

Jimmy Iovine

#14. No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.

Phoebe Tonkin