Cryptic Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image ““I glory in the emotionally commonplace”” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cryptic Sad
“In spiritual matters, the only real glory is in the renunciation of glorifying self.” — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“There is a quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I don’t desire glory. Glory brings fame, and fame brings jealousy, and jealousy brings danger.” — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“True glory lies in the pro-creation and re-enactment of virtuous heroism through meaning.” — VD Copy Share Image
“Here I understand what is meant by glory: the right to love without limits.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Glory, battle, great momentsss, are where we give to the world. But we cannot give without receiving. We cannot share what we do not… — Christie Golden Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
I talk about things in music that I would never talk about with my best friends, which I think seems like a weird thing,… — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image