Dan Groat, Monarchs And Mendicants Quotes

Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.

It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it’s so much better than before because of something you did.

Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.

We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.

Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.

A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature’s demolition team comes in.

Gifford Ulrich didn’t know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn’t sleep in alleys.

If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.

Surviving is about need. Living is about want.

He had no ability to give up. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to quit, he couldn’t. It wasn’t in him. It never had been.

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.

Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.

Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.