George Saunders Quotes
If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.
Quotes to Explore
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
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It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
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But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.
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“Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?' His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son,' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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Eighteen centuries have passed since the Bible was finished. They have been centuries of great changes. In their course the world has been wrought over into newness at almost every point. But, to-day, the text of the Scriptures, after copyings almost innumerable and after having been tossed about through ages of ignorance and tumult, is found by exhaustive criticism to be unaltered in every important particular — there being not a single doctrine, nor duty, nor fact of any grade, that is brought into question by variations of readings — a fact that stands alone in the history of such ancient literature.
