Grisel Santos > Grisel's Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.”
― Irving Berlin

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
― Milton Berle

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.

And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“But of course he was also human, which is to say he was limited, and among his limitations was a blindness of a kind that is perhaps not all that unusual among extraordinary men of a certain type. Often right about important things, he was inclined to think himself always right about everything.”
― G.J. Meyer, The World Remade: America in World War I