Grit Quote by Anna Funder Download Open image “Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?” — Anna Funder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grit Grit Rubs Our past Past Past Grit Pearls Rework Rework Past Shiny Smooth Smooth Time Your past
I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you were beside… — Lacey Evans Copy Share Image
Thinks of difficult people as sandpaper, they may rub & scratch you painfully but you'll end up smooth & polished . — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Need to sharpen my blade. Make it shiny, gleamy, and oh, so... deadly. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go. — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man. — Henry Cejudo Copy Share Image
At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“The blue-eyed rabbi in our village at Samotschin used to talk to me as though I were a grown person, even when I was… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“History was so quickly remade, and so successfully, that it can truly be said that the easterners did not feel then, and do not… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.” — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Such applications were sometimes granted because the GDR, unlike any other eastern European country, could rid itself of malcontents by ditching them into West… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“anti-fascist protective measure’. I have always been fond of this term which has something of the prophylactic about it, protecting easterners from the western… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Julia and her family, like many others in the GDR, trod this line between seeing things for what they were in the GDR, and… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“And I think about those Stasi men. They would never in their lives have imagined that they would cease to exist and that their… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts. — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
Londoners are really good at dealing with any crap that's thrown at them. We hunker down, we grit our teeth and we get on… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence. — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
“The grits were lumpy, but the flavor was incredible: the garlic and onion powder, the cayenne's heat lingering after every bite, the creamy tang… — Shauna Robinson Copy Share Image
I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he… — Tom Chapin Copy Share Image