Grayce Bettman > Grayce's Quotes

“Mike says the studio indulges Leo bc he's a magical starboy. He thinks Melanie puts up w/it bc it's a great credit bc everything Leo touches turns to gold. Maybe one day I'll turn to gold.”
― Nicole Schubert, Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land

“Dependent cultures not only kill the ambition of the people and the organization, they will ultimately drain the energy of the leader and result in the burnout that has killed so many promising careers”
― Andrew Wyatt, Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact

“deep”
― Marilyn Dalla Valle, Murder in Newport

“And, for a moment in time, I’d crossed the line over to evil and used some unethical interrogation techniques to bring him down. I was hoping for a few months of ‘down time.’ Time to reevaluate how I’d let myself cross that line and how to prevent it from ever happening again. Then there was my father. He was quickly succumbing to Alzheimer’s and I wanted to spend more time with him.”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

“Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“We should not take lightly the horrible thoughts this place of death and destruction are meant to unveil. We are warned about the misery of death and Hell and should reflect upon its timeless torments and endless darkness in which men grope hopelessly for some relief that they are fully persuaded no longer exists.
8.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

“There was something about the star, rising above the stable, that still pulled a crowd in from the fields.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

“God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip

“this might be a beauty to send men mad. Her body was slight with a child’s slenderness, but her breasts were full and pointed and her throat round as a lily stem. Her hair was rosy gold, streaming long and unbound over the golden-green robe. The large eyes that I remembered were gold-green too, liquid and clear as a stream running over mosses, and the small mouth lifted into a smile over kitten’s teeth”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

“Mutti, ich fühle mich so alt", sagte sie und weinte. "Ich fühle mich beinahe wie sechzehn.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Kalle Blomquist lebt gefährlich

“All of us are, as Mr. Stevens said, “condemned to be that inescapable animal, ourselves.”
― Harold Bloom

“What about Gale?"
"He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly.
"And it was okay with both of us? You kissing the other?" He asks.
"No. It wasn't okay with either of you. But I wasn't asking your permission," I tell him.
Peeta laughs again, coldly, dismissively. "Well, you're a piece of work, aren't you?”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.”
― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

“she,”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“Only she is chaste whom none has invited”
― Ovid, The Art of Love

“Let them see my weakness, and let them see me overcome it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.”
― Lois Lowry, Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence