Sorton Granville Quotes

#1. I'm never going to do what everyone else does. Never. #Quote by Eliza Granville

#2. For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today. #Quote by Clare Mulley

#3. Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams ... their demons #Quote by Eliza Granville

#4. You should never judge a person solely by the evidence of your eyes. #Quote by Eliza Granville

#5. We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. #Quote by Evelyn Boyd Granville

#6. The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone. #Quote by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#7. All they see is madness. It's the same with the other men. They see my situation, not me. #Quote by Eliza Granville

#8. There is no heaven like mutual love. #Quote by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#9. You're Piers Brandon, the Marquess of Granville, diplomat and secret agent in the Crown's service." She ran a fingertip down the noble slope of his nose. "And I'm Char - "
Her words were lost in a gasp.

With the speed and strength of a whip, he had her turned on her back, sprawled beneath him on the tufted carriage seat.
"You will be Lady Charlotte Brandon, the Marchioness of Granville, diplomat's wife and mother of my heir."
.......
"You'll be mine," he murmured. "I swear it, Charlotte. I will make you mine. #Quote by Tessa Dare

#10. Thamsine Granville had not begun the day with the intention of killing Oliver Cromwell. #Quote by Alison Stuart

#11. Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear. #Quote by Granville Sharp

#12. If buying equities seem the most hazardous and foolish thing you could possibly do, then you are near the bottom that will end the bear market. #Quote by Joseph Granville

#13. It was not an easy thing, for to name something established dominion over it. As with an infant, it shaped and moulded with the namer's expectations that which was named. It set apart. It emphasized human aloneness. #Quote by Eliza Granville

#14. Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to mistake a fancy for a fact. Geologists, in particular, have very frequently amused themselves in this way, and it is not a little amusing to follow them in their fancies and their waking dreams. Geology, indeed, in this view, may be called a romantic science. #Quote by Granville Penn

#15. ...soon I shall go from here and everything that I have seen or heard, felt, smelled, tasted, enjoyed, loved, will be extinguished and forgotten. There will be nothing left of me but a number on some ledger. And so, I give the a Earth my memories. #Quote by Eliza Granville

#16. Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone. #Quote by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#17. No one can be cured of being who they are. #Quote by Tilly Bagshawe

#18. The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be ... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself. #Quote by Granville Hicks

#19. I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics. #Quote by Evelyn Boyd Granville

#20. A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity. #Quote by Granville Sharp

#21. Yes, life is hard," whispers Erika, "but knowing about other people, other civilisations, other ways of living, other places – that's your escape route, a magical journey. Once you know about these things, no matter what happens, your mind can create stories to take you anywhere you want to go. #Quote by Eliza Granville

#22. Swaggering in the coffee-houses and ruffling it in the streets were the men who had sailed with Frobisher and Drake and Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Hawkins, and Sir Richard Granville; had perhaps witnessed the heroic death of Sir Philip Sidney, at Zutphen; had served with Raleigh in Anjou, Picardy, Languedoc, in the Netherlands, in the Irish civil war; had taken part in the dispersion of the Spanish Armada, and in the bombardment of Cadiz; had filled their cups to the union of Scotland with England; had suffered shipwreck on the Barbary Coast, or had, by the fortune of war, felt the grip of the Spanish Inquisition; who could tell tales of the marvels seen in new-found America and the Indies, and, perhaps, like Captain John Smith, could mingle stories of the naive simplicity of the natives beyond the Atlantic, with charming narratives of the wars in Hungary, the beauties of the seraglio of the Grand Turk, and the barbaric pomp of the Khan of Tartary. #Quote by William Shakespeare

#23. Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. #Quote by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#24. I was walking down Granville Street, Vancouver's version of "The Strip," and I was looking into one of the video arcades. I could see in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids inside were. It was like one of those closed systems out of a Pynchon novel: a feedback loop with photons coming off the screens into the kids' eyes, neurons moving through their bodies, and electrons moving through the video game. These kids clearly believed in the space games projected. Everyone I know who works with computers seems to develop a belief that there's some kind of actual space behind the screen, someplace you can't see but you know is there. #Quote by William Gibson

#25. Then what had been at the bottom of his mind all along surfaced, like a rotten log in a swamp brought up by its own putrescent gases. A headline from last summer's newspaper: LOCAL MAN INDICTED FOR MURDER. A measure of peace returned to him. A feeling of self-confidence, of being in good hands. Granville Sutter, he thought. #Quote by William Gay

#26. Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake. #Quote by Clare Mulley

#27. The obvious is obviously wrong. #Quote by Joseph Granville

#28. Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree. #Quote by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#29. They've always told that when Granville was a boy he woke up one time in the middle of the night and she was settin on the side of the bed watchin him and she was holdin a butcher knife. Said she was watchin him, but it was like shewasn't really seein him. He laid awake the balance of the night waitin to see what she'd do, then he took to sleepin in the woods or in the barn. Just wherever. She'd set up all night like she was studyin about somethin. They took to hidin all the knives. #Quote by William Gay

#30. Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. #Quote by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#31. As soon as you think you've got the key to the stock market, they change the lock. #Quote by Joseph Granville

#32. If it were possible to create objects to meet one's deepest longings then nobody would need God. #Quote by Eliza Granville

#33. Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind. #Quote by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#34. When he came he first covered me with his revolver', Christine write in her official report, but it was not long before Waem put the gun down on the table between them. #Quote by Clare Mulley

#35. One way or another, we're all prisoners. #Quote by Eliza Granville

#36. Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain. #Quote by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#37. Beauty should be kind, as well as charm. #Quote by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#38. At least we've still got each other.' Daniel squeezes my hand. I hadn't noticed he was holding it. 'We'll never be parted.'

'If you won't ever forsake me,' I say, comforted a little by realizing I can still remember Greet's stories, 'I won't forsake you. #Quote by Eliza Granville