Gregg Hurwitz > Quotes

“A guy can love a million women. But a man, a man loves one woman a million ways.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“Respect for women is essential,” Jack tells him. “Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated. Treating women properly is not just a moral position—which it is—or an American value—which it is. It’s a strategic imperative, and you will always, always lead by example in this regard.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.”
― Gregg Hurwitz

“Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“How you do anything is how you do everything”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Orphan X

“There is no emotion more useless than self-pity. Evan”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. And I’m aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Prodigal Son

“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“Always respect life. Then you'll value yours. The hard part isn't turning you into a killer. The hard part is keeping you human.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“Look at me closely. Ask yourself: Do I look scared?”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Nowhere Man

“I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying it's worth doing. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Hellbent

“Next time, he thinks. The two best words in the English language.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Nowhere Man

“NEXT TIME.” The two best words in the English language. Freedom and possibility. Progress, not perfection. Just do something a little bit better than the last go-round and your place in the world would get a little bit clearer.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“When you wrong someone, you don't get to say which grudges people may or may not hold,”
― Gregg Hurwitz, You're Next

“Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“I’ll tell you this: Parenting ain’t for sissies.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Dark Horse

“People talk about starting over,’ he said. ‘But you can’t start over. All you can do is change direction.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, The Nowhere Man

“When you get stuck, remember that you can deal with physical issues intellectually and intellectual issues emotionally. You can work out emotional issues psychologically and psychological issues spiritually. Those are the spokes of the wheel—one breaks, you can use another to fix it.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, The Last Orphan

“Not the smoking. The ritual. Tapping down the pack, my silver lighter, a smoke in the morning, in the car, with a cup of coffee. There was something so soothing about it. Knowing you could count on it. It was always there.” She ground out the cigarette”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“If you have to be hit over the head to learn something about yourself, you’ll be someone who thinks that people only learn if you hit them over the head.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, The Last Orphan

“I think of heroes as ordinary people who decide to give a damn about what they do, not what they might get.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, They're Watching: A Novel

“For as long as I can remember, I’ve been out in the cold, nose up to the glass, looking in. I may not get to come inside, Jack. But I’m sure as hell not gonna let the wolves in at everyone else. No. That’s one thing I’m good for.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Nowhere Man

“Anticipation of pain leads to fear, and fear amplifies pain,” he says. “Expectation of relief from pain increases the opioids in the brain, makes the hurting stop. How your mind reacts to pain determines how much pain you actually feel.”
― Gregg Hurwitz

“If you don’t know what to do, do nothing.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, The Nowhere Man

“Evan sits on the floor, hard; the collective wisdom of four cultures distilled into a single ass kicking.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“To destroy something you cannot be is to embrace your darkest heart, to yield to an ungodly desire. It is to be hijacked by what you aren’t rather than nourished by what you are.

Because what you are is nothing.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, The Nowhere Man

“Maybe that’s all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don’t know anything.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Prodigal Son

“battle that rages inside every person.’ ‘The two wolves.’ ‘That’s right. One wolf is anger and fear and paranoia and cruelty. The other is kindness, humility, compassion, serenity. And the boy asks his grandfather, “Which wolf wins?” You remember the answer?’ ‘ “The one you feed.” ’ ‘That’s right.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Orphan X

“Remember what Confucius say: ‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Hellbent