C.D. Gorri > C.D.'s Quotes

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

“Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O Never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.”
― W. B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age

“A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.”
― Jane Yolen, Girl in a Cage

“All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.”
― Nathalie M. Leblanc, Shrinking Forward

“I'm awful glad I'm not a bug
to go through life without a hug.”
― Kat McMann

“We need our hugs to get us through!
and without them what would we do?
Did you receive a hug today?
and have you given one away?
:o)kat”
― Kat McMann

“I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“Give me a little peace.
A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool—as if the way one fell down mattered.

Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“My name is Grazi Kelly. There are things I know are true and things that I never would have guessed. First, demons and witches exist and they are evil. Second, the world is up for grabs and the witches are getting their minions ready. Third, I'm a werewolf and it's my job to stop them.”
― C.D. Gorri, Wolf Moon

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Face front, true believers!”
― Stan Lee

“Now that I had run out of steam I realized I was in Ronan’s room, at
night. He was standing there in a pair of boxers and nothing else. Gulp. Maybe I
shouldn’t be too hasty to throw away this betrothal. Ew. Great, Grazi, why not just drool
all over the boy in his underwear after you pretty much told him you wanted nothing to
do with him? I’m such a freak.
“Um, I’ll see you tomorrow.” I turned around and left as quickly as I had come in.”
― C.D. Gorri, Hunter Moon

““She doesn’t seem to like me very much. Why is she here?” I wondered about the
testing Uncle Sean spoke of, but I was more concerned with the lethal blonde who
seemed to have taken an instant dislike to me.”
― C.D. Gorri, Hunter Moon

“Lastly and most importantly, I
bought a dozen new bras and twenty pairs of underwear. Having ripped my last two
really good ones to shreds during my change, I figured these were a good investment.
They probably wouldn’t last very long. I bit my lip and went back and got four more of
each.
“Seriously, Grazi, what are you going to do with all those bras and panties? And you
really should consider a thong.””
― C.D. Gorri, Hunter Moon

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero