Quotes
Authors
Robert Grudin
"We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day." --
Source : Robert Grudin (1982). “Time and the art of living”, Harpercollins
Robert Grudin
#Attitude Quotes
#Lying Quotes
#Struggle Quotes
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.”
“I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun.”
“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”
“Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris muttered.”
“I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.”
“No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.”
Source : John Haynes Holmes (1959). “I Speak for Myself: The Autobiography of John Haynes Holmes”
“It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.”
“We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.”
