S. Gregory Quotes

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe ...The implications of our beliefs are frightening.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

The world is fed by greed.

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

It takes two to know one.

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.

The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.

For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

Gregory Peck is the hottest thing in town. Some say he is a second Gary Cooper. Actually, he is the first Gregory Peck.

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.