Savage Grace Quotes

#1. The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK?

Gudrun Ensslin

#2. Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

Leo Rosten

#3. Black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed
by anyone.

Joycelyn Elders

#4. Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.

Walter Savage Landor

#5. It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Eric S. Raymond

#7. Life is an adventure," Karen's mother used to tell her, "so be sure you experience it when it happens." It was one of Grace Tyler's favorites, one of several rules in her "Mom" arsenal, along with the ones about always having umbrellas and clean underwear and quarters for the pay phone.

Tom Savage

#8. The son of a human is human, just as the son of a dog is a dog and the son of a cat is a cat. And so what is the son of God?

Bart D. Ehrman

#9. What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

Peter Thiel

#10. The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.

Sam Peckinpah

#11. Stop!" I sent my open hand sailing and slapped Talbot across his face.
He let go of the spear and stared down at me-that rage burning in his eyes. Then he blinked and clutched his palm over the red hand-shaped mark I'd left on his face. "What was that for!"
"He submitted.Let.Him.Go.

Bree Despain

#12. The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!

Ravi Zacharias

#13. The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Sarah Dessen

#14. This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their place and left floating, half-this, half-that, denied the rooted person's comforting, defining sense of having solid ground beneath their feet.

Salman Rushdie

#15. Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.

Paul Rudd

#16. I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.

Adam Levine

#17. People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.

Thomas Nixon Carver

#18. To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#19. The story of Psyche finally made sense to him- why a mortal girl would be so afraid. Why would she risk breaking the rules to look the god of love in the face, because she feared he might be a monster.
Psyche had been right. Cupid was a monster. Love was the most savage monster of all.

Rick Riordan

#20. Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

Walter Savage Landor

#21. Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

Charles Warren Stoddard

#22. Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!

Trenton Lee Stewart