Sarah Grand quotes

“Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves”
-- Sarah Grand

Source : Sarah Grand (pseud.) (1901). “Babs the Impossible”

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“Just do a thing and donÂ’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success.”
-- Sarah Grand

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“Just do a thing and don’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success.”
-- Sarah Grand

Source : Sarah Grand (1893). “The Heavenly Twins”, p.200, University of Michigan Press

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“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p 34, 1957.

“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”

“Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”

“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”

“It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.”

“As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.”

“Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.118, Penguin