W. G. Grace Quotes

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.

A liar lies to others. A fool lies to herself.

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.

There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you.

I feel like I have no real solid plans like, "this is what I'm going to do and I will do it by 2017" or whatever.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

Without alcohol I'd be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer's fees.

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Manage things. Lead people.

Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.

Indian summer is like a woman.

Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

A bad ride is much better than a good walk.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

Art's too long and life's too short.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

I think hard-working people have more opportunities no matter what on YouTube, regardless of gender.

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.

You have to think about yourself and think about where you are and if you're happy. If you feel good and you feel happy, then that's the path you should be on.

Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot." My mom's like, "Shut up, Chloe, watch the film!"