Top 35 John Graves Quotes
#1. All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...
John Julius Norwich
#2. Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
Saint John Chrysostom
#3. We shove the dirt over the book, tamping down the disturbed soil. The grass will grow back soon enough. It will be for us the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
John Green
#4. Congress also did something new, which is, they delayed for two years two new taxes - one on medical devices and one on high-end health insurance plans. Those taxes are supposed to help pay for President Obama's health care law, but they're really unpopular.
Susan Davis
#5. [F]or all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin.
Bertrand Russell
#6. The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
John Steinbeck
#7. Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
John Dryden
#9. James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?
Khaled Hosseini
#10. No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.
Robert Graves
#11. But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goes on, but not about dying. I never think about dying.
John Berendt
#13. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself,
Oscar Wilde
#14. Some days load themselves with questions whose answers have died, and maybe never mattered hugely
John Graves
#15. He further believed that the only way to get people to believe that you were good for their careers was actually to be good for their careers.
Michael Lewis
#16. I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
Jack Dee
#17. If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.
Marlon James
#18. If he considered God at all, he thought of Him as an old and honored general, retired and gray, living among remembered battles and putting wreaths on the graves of his lieutenants several times a year.
John Steinbeck
#19. The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
Cleveland Amory
#20. The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.
John Graves Simcoe
#21. I nod and smile and smile and nod, and when she turns away, I form a gun with my hand, place it to my temple, and pull the trigger. This girl is starved for attention. It's amazing to me when people are totally unaware of how bad they are at socializing.
Victoria Scott
#22. To put the last point another way, writers such as Graves, Sassoon, and Owen saw the Great War as the disease, but Tolkien saw it as merely the symptom.
John Garth
#23. If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.
John Graves
#25. We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.
John Evelyn
#26. Dennis Wise, Vinnie Jones and John Fashanu must be turning in their graves
Carlton Palmer
#27. My experience on 'The West Wing' was, I think, now rare in that I was pretty young, and I walked into this environment where Aaron Sorkin was giving me a script every week, and Thomas Schlamme and John Wells were keeping the studio off my back, at least as best as they could.
Alex Graves
#29. What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.
Jack McDevitt
#30. For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!
John Greenleaf Whittier
#31. In 1444 in Wallachia/The vampires all came forth to rock ya, ha.
Just no.
Cassandra Clare
#32. Satellite technology is a wonderful thing. From space, we can stare down and look at perimeter fences, huts, mine entrances and even sites of mass graves.
John Sweeney
#33. The room feels like you're being wrapped in a hug because you chose every single little detail for it out of love. So I get it. Love is all that matters.
Jillian Dodd
#35. I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.
Tricia Helfer
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