Quotes of David Grayson - somelinesforyou

“ The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. “Why," I answered without a thought, “now." ”

- David Grayson

“ Whenever words fly up at me from a printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard. ”

- David Grayson

“ Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. ”

- David Grayson

“ Adventure is not outside man; it is within. ”

- David Grayson

“ No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each. ”

- David Grayson

“ We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. ”

- David Grayson

“ Adventure is not outside man; it is within. ”

- David Grayson

“ Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. ”

- David Grayson

“ Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ”

- David Grayson

“ Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. ”

- David Grayson

“ What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid, boundless, colored mutability!-Life in the making? ”

- David Grayson

“ We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. ”

- David Grayson

“ I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. ”

- David Grayson

“ I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. ”

- David Grayson

“ Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities — of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. ”

- David Grayson

“ We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. ”

- David Grayson

“ Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. ”

- David Grayson

“ No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each. ”

- David Grayson

“ Happiness… she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child. ”

- David Grayson

“ I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. ”

- David Grayson

“ No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each. ”

- David Grayson

“ I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. ”

- David Grayson

“ Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities — of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. ”

- David Grayson

“ We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. ”

- David Grayson

“ In back of tranquility lies always conquered unhappiness. ”

- David Grayson

“ Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different. ”

- David Grayson

“ Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different. ”

- David Grayson

“ Whenever words fly up at me from a printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard. ”

- David Grayson

“ Whenever words fly up at me from a printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard. ”

- David Grayson

“ We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. ”

- David Grayson
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