Never Met Grandpa Quotes

#1. Whatever path you take, there is a league of bad road.

Len Deighton

#2. What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

Albert Camus

#3. To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

William Hazlitt

#4. When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

Oprah Winfrey

#5. You (must) do plenty of 'pratikraman'. Do the 'pratikraman' for an hour every day of everyone who is living around you, whomever you have harassed.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. Little children love bright, shiny things - and in my experience, most grown-up women aren't very different!

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#7. Each new moment presents an opportunity for conscious choice. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to be here now. We can choose to accept responsibility for ourselves ... We can choose to awaken. Or we can choose to remain asleep and unconscious.

Leonard Jacobson

#8. Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized information, and then you go out into the world and you never see any of that ever again. There's no more organized information.

Peter Schjeldahl

#9. We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

Jose Saramago

#10. I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

Sharon Stone

#11. Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.

Alice Englert