"There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Steps Quotes #Grotesque Quotes #Horrible Quotes

“I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for him”
“I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.”
“Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.”
“I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is often their capacity to reframe issues in novel ways. That said, his leadership engaged, at a foundational level, whether the American "national character" would accept decline and mediocrity, or would go all-in for leadership and excellence. Amid the myriad of otherwise disconnected issues before us, that choice is emerging yet again.”
“Tolerance can lead to learning something.”
“It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in the number of murders, well, it will mean that they have been quite useful in some way or another."”
“Chance gives a smile to the one who is ready to take it”
“There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.”

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