Quotes About Gracious Living

#1. There is nothing louder than an American hotel; and, mind you, this was supposed to be a quiet, cozy, old-fashioned, homey place - 'gracious living' and all that stuff.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.

Judith Martin

#3. But more important than all these lovely features of gracious living was the camaraderie of the young residents, who aspired to better lives on the wings of their talent and creativity.

Adriana Trigiani

#4. Liquor is not necessary either for health or for so-called gracious living ... It is the cause of untold sorrow, suffering, and material loss, not to mention the spiritual implications of drinking.

Billy Graham

#5. God's power, gracious life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. The Lord's gracious hand is upon us.
We will begin the good work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. my formula for the Chinese national mind is: R4D1H3S3 There

Lin Yutang

#8. Living lacks joy without you
dying lacks joy without you
How can I clear my mind of care for you?
I cannot manage without you.
Whatever I say, my source,
reveals my strengths and faults
So please, be gracious!
and repeat with me:
I cannot manage without you.

Rumi

#9. Whoever has experienced near-death, knows how gracious, it is to be alive.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

Ted Danson

#11. I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

Jules Asner

#12. How gracious to forgive the people who hurt you

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I know I always carry her with me, and to have a piece of her grace shine through me is a gift I will continually strive to earn.

Esther Earl

#14. When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.

Stormie O'martian

#15. Ezekiel 33:11: 'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live.

Tim LaHaye

#16. God is Holy.
God is pure.
God is faithful.
God is gracious.
God is merciful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. A man is known not by what he is but by what he does.

Me

#18. In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

Anna Quindlen

#19. Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.

J. Boone

#20. She wore white heirloom lace about her throat
And in her hair a bright golden feather
A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck
But her smile fetched ten gold together

Shannon Hale

#21. Smiling and breathing. These are simple things. Exercising and serving. These are simple things. Being grateful and gracious. These are simple things. Acting with humility. Acting with courage. These are simple things. Some people try to make this business of living too complicated,

Eric Greitens

#22. God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment.

Moby

#23. My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#24. It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

Rudy Giuliani

#25. I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.

Brooke Burke

#26. Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Matthew Pearl