George Grenville Quotes

#1. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated.

Emily Giffin

#2. Really, Mr. Collins,' cried Elizabeth with some warmth, 'you puzzle me exceedingly. If what I have hitherto said can appear to you in the form of encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal in such a way as to convince you of its being one.

Jane Austen

#3. Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

Mark Vonnegut

#4. there is a dense crowd; outside the Betting Rooms it is like a great struggle at a theatre door - in the days of theatres; or at the vestibule of the Spurgeon temple - in the days of Spurgeon. An

Charles Dickens

#5. The servants of God who had been a besieged garrison became a marching army; the ways of the world were filled as with thunder with the trampling of their feet and far ahead of that ever swelling host went a man singing; as simply he had sung that morning in the winter woods, where he walked alone.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. I just don't have time to get old!

Dolly Parton

#7. The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.

George Grenville

#8. The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Aristotle.

#9. I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

Tom DeLay

#10. 4091 East Olympic Boulevard proved to be a nondescript one-storey sandstone building of the sort you drive blithely by every day, knowing it's full of paper-pushers and clock-watchers, and nobody's in there writing a symphony or taming a lion or having an orgasm.

James K. Morrow

#11. Everything for me becomes allegory.

Charles Baudelaire

#12. I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn't find exactly that.

Richard Greenberg

#13. Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

Thomas Paine

#14. Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees

Benny Bellamacina

#15. A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

George Grenville