The Saving Graces Quotes

#1. It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.

Jane Hirshfield

#2. Our lives and the love we share are the saving graces of that night.

Jessica Park

#3. If you are committed, you can select your thoughts and thereby shape your life here on earth into something spectacular. The alternative is to give up this freedom and live a life of mediocrity dominated by uncertainty and suspense.

Tommy Newberry

#4. You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Elizabeth Edwards

#5. Mr. Churchill, sir, to what do you attribute your success in life?" Without pause or hesitation, he replied: "Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down." He

Paul Johnson

#6. I don't like to take my clothes off.

Demi Moore

#7. Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan K. Simpson

#8. As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

Leo Gordon

#9. I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become ... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

May Sarton

#10. The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

Jonathan Edwards

#11. Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. You still secretly believe that there is an element of magic to this world? It's all just soulless molecules bouncing against each other randomly.

John Green

#13. Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

Michael R. Burch

#14. Reputation is for those who can afford it.

Paula Brackston

#15. A land of brass and steel and clockwork, of steam airships, cogs that turned and wheels that spun.

Emma Trevayne

#16. All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't care, or they wouldn't hear, or they would take too much from me once they knew.

Patricia Gaffney