#ark

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#called #citadel #completely #dark #did

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#brow #candid #disapproval #i #i see

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #every #every time #go #got

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. ↗

— John Grisham

#beneath #big #big picture #book #card

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt. ↗

— Mark Twain

#religion #religion

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#dark #dark side #listening #music #nature

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#detail #instances #memories #objectively #remarkable

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#fifty #forth #good #hundred #least

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#little #live #makes #marks #pulp

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive. ↗

— John Guare

#alive #ballet #because #city #dancer