Alasdair Gray Quotes

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

Alasdair Gray

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• Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Different
  • Real
  • Peace

• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Depend

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Up
  • Always

• Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Home
  • Chance
  • Inspiration

• I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • Roots
  • Charismatic
  • Pentecostal

• I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Game
  • Teaching
  • Coaching

• Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Grew

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Business

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Together
  • River
  • Wood

• Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Game
  • Works
  • Smiles

• I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Worry
  • Body
  • Enough

• I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Death
  • Parents
  • Myself

• Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Single

• Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Children
  • Virtues
  • Mother`s

• When hands are joined, no one can point fingers.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Hands
  • Fingers

• It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously.

  

  Wilson Bryan Key
  • Individual
  • Anxiety

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Measure

• I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

  

  Alasdair Gray
  • Love
  • Die
  • Enough