Gray Quotes - Page 35

• The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Compassion, Divine

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.48, NavPress

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• And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Poetry, Desire

  "Ulysses" l. 30 (1842)

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• Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.

  Russell Brand

  Jesus, Eye, Church Bells

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• Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up at Nash's feet and dropped from the saddle. The two brothers threw their arms around each other and embraced hard. Shortly thereafter he stepped into the healing rooms and leaned in the doorway, looking across at her quietly. Brocker's son with the gentle gray eyes. She abandoned all pretense of decorum and ran at him.

  Kristin Cashore

  Brother, Horse, Wall

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• What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

  Oscar Wilde

  Grace, Portraits, Would Be

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.104, Prestwick House Inc

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• I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful.

  James Salter

  Powerful, Tired, Ice

  James Salter, Robert Phelps (2010). “Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps”, p.25, Counterpoint Press

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• And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Firsts, First Time, Fallen

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• And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Beach, Children, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink. He went to have a look. The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. "What's this?" he asked Aunt Petunia. "Your new school uniform," she said. Harry looked in the bowl again. "Oh," he said, "I didn't realize it had to be so wet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Dirty, School

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• Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

  William Butler Yeats

  Taken, Sleep, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats”, p.57, William Butler Yeats

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• I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

  Lauren Oliver

  Ocean, Color, Waiting

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Two, Black, Hints

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1969-1974”

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• I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

  Jane Seymour

  Smile, Eye, Winning

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

  Hugh Sidey

  Brave, Use, Way

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• Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

  William Styron

  Depression, Pain, Suffering

  William Clark Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

  Pete Townshend

  Black And White, Color, Cinema

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• Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

  James Altucher

  Art, Honesty, Compassion

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• The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind. It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.

  Al Ries

  Real, Gray Matter, Mind

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• At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

  Tom Selleck

  Blessing, Age, Doe

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Believe, Arrogant, Answers

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

  John Steinbeck

  Confusion, Humanity, Passing

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

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• One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

  Gloria Steinem

  Army, One Day, Earth

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.893, Open Road Media

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• Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Running, Writing, Boys

  Lectures on Literature "Good Readers and Good Writers" (1980)

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• The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Hair, Long

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• Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!

  Eoin Colfer

  Who Cares, Steel, Looks

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