There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
~By Patrick Campbell ~
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
~By David Friedman ~
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
~By John Clayton ~
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
~By Anne Lamott ~
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
~By Tommy Armour ~
I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
~By Ted Danson ~
Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.
~By Edward Grey ~
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
~By Richard Carlson ~
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
~By John Owen ~
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
~By Natalie Imbruglia ~
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
~By Anna Akhmatova ~
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
~By James Thomson ~
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
~By Anna Held ~
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
~By Marcel Proust ~
All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.
~By Philip Henry ~
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.
~By Mohammed Omar ~
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
~By Og Mandino ~
Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
~By John Strachan ~
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
~By Paul Virilio ~
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
~By Anne Hutchinson ~
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
~By Bernard Pivot ~
Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
~By Joshua Reynolds ~
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.
~By Arthur Hugh Clough ~
A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.
~By Marcel Carne ~
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
~By Georges Rouault ~
I just look at it, as it's something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland is suited for a king and it is his castle. And people really should see it, as he loved it.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.
~By Ray Manzarek ~
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
~By Joseph Wood Krutch ~
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
~By Frederick Buechner ~
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
~By Petrarch ~
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared.
~By Alex Rodriguez ~
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
~By Hesiod ~
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
~By Mother Teresa ~
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
~By Brian P. Cleary ~
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
~By John Dryden ~
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.
~By Rick Perry ~
One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
~By Victor Hugo ~
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
~By Jose Marti ~
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
~By Milton Berle ~
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
~By Barry McGuire ~
I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
~By Taylor Swift ~
Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.
~By Felix Marti-Ibanez ~
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
~By Alexander Pope ~
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.
~By Joseph Prince ~
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
~By Peter Stone ~
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
~By Jack Cade ~
I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do.
~By Mary McDonnell ~
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
~By John Murray ~
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
~By Carl Van Vechten ~
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
~By Simone Weil ~
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
~By James Thurber ~
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
~By Pindar ~
Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
~By May Sarton ~
The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
~By William Gurnall ~
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
~By John Andre ~
There, but for the grace of God, goes God.
~By Herman J. Mankiewicz ~
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.
~By Rita Rudner ~
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
~By Zoe Saldana ~
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
~By Mariah Carey ~
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
~By Julie Burchill ~
I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
~By Martin Puryear ~
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
~By Vittorio Alfieri ~
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
~By Christopher Fry ~
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
~By John Donne ~
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