Top 100 Grenville Quotes
#1. BEFORE HE CAME INTO a lot of money in 1839, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, led a largely uneventful life.
Bill Bryson
#2. And there is an earlier Wilson cycle, too, a billion years old, entrapped alongside the Appalachians: the Grenville, which rises to the surface in Central Park, New York, to remind us that the human and urban is no more than foam on the sea of the past.
Richard Fortey
#3. We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.
Loretta Chase
#4. He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be.
S.E. Hinton
#5. Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
Grenville Kleiser
#6. The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your personal character.
Grenville Kleiser
#7. The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.
Grenville Kleiser
#8. The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville Kleiser
#9. I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of ... that gives you a certain power over it.
Kate Grenville
#10. It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Grenville Kleiser
#11. Idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.
Grenville Kleiser
#14. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.
Grenville Kleiser
#17. People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.
Grenville Kleiser
#18. it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger
Kate Grenville
#19. Until you could put yourself at some point beyond your own world, looking back at it, you would never see how everything worked together.
Kate Grenville
#20. To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.
Grenville Kleiser
#21. But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after.
Marc Aronson
#22. Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.
Grenville Kleiser
#23. You were alive for such a short time and then you went back into the great silence. The only ones who didn't vanish were the artists. While you were reading their words and looking at their pictures they were still alive, and you shared some of their life too.
Kate Grenville
#26. A rumor is like a check
never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.
Grenville Kleiser
#27. Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser
#28. If I can aid one in distress,
If I can make a burden less,
If I can spread more happiness,
Lord, show me how.
Grenville Kleiser
#29. A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville
#30. By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
Grenville Kleiser
#31. What an astonishing thing, that her praise filled his heart.
Kate Grenville
#32. Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.
Grenville Kleiser
#33. For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
Kate Grenville
#34. He had seen God in the night sky long before he understood its patterns.
Kate Grenville
#35. A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
George Grenville
#36. Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
Kate Grenville
#37. Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
Kate Grenville
#38. Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.
Grenville Kleiser
#39. Some kinds of order were too vast for a human to know. But below the chaos of a single human life, you could trust that a cosmic breve was sounding.
Kate Grenville
#40. The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.
Grenville Kleiser
#41. I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.
Kate Grenville
#42. Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation.
Kate Grenville
#43. When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
Kate Grenville
#44. It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.
Grenville Kleiser
#45. Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve
Grenville Kleiser
#47. Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser
#49. When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.
Grenville Kleiser
#50. The dragons of twentieth-century life are ignorance, incompetence, slackness and disloyalty, she said.
Kate Grenville
#51. The self that had laughed and raised his glass and shouted out the words with the others seemed to him now to be foolishly, dangerously, disastrously innocent.
Kate Grenville
#52. How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.
Kate Grenville
#53. You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.
Grenville Kleiser
#55. The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.
Grenville Kleiser
#56. Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition.
Grenville Kleiser
#57. I do feel as if ... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
Kate Grenville
#58. Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser
#59. I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.
Kate Grenville
#60. I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
Kate Grenville
#61. All this, grassy paddock, cows, trees - he had thought it was Nature. But now he could see that that was ignorance, or lack of imagination. It was not Nature. It was actually property.
Kate Grenville
#63. By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.
Grenville Kleiser
#64. Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and
ambition to do something fine and enduring ... If you are willing,
great things are possible to you.
Grenville Kleiser
#65. Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.
Grenville Kleiser
#66. Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Kate Grenville
#67. A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.
Kate Grenville
#68. You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.
Grenville Kleiser
#69. Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient ... Ignore the inconsequential.
Grenville Kleiser
#70. Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.
Grenville Kleiser
#71. I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
Kate Grenville
#72. I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
Kate Grenville
#73. You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.
Grenville Kleiser
#74. Ain't nothing in this world just for the taking...A man got to pay a fair price for taking...Matter of give a little, take a little.
Kate Grenville
#75. There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.
Grenville Kleiser
#76. Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
Grenville Kleiser
#77. The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.
Kate Grenville
#78. Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
Kate Grenville
#80. Until a thing was seen, could it be said to exist? And if his eye through the telescope were the one that brought a certain star into existence, did not that make him a creator?
Kate Grenville
#81. One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
Kate Grenville
#82. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.
Grenville Kleiser
#83. You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.
Grenville Kleiser
#84. 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
#85. Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ... the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
Grenville Kleiser
#86. I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
Kate Grenville
#87. Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.
Grenville Kleiser
#88. The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.
Grenville Kleiser
#90. 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.
Kate Grenville
#91. There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.
Grenville Kleiser
#92. A woman's heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.
Grenville Kleiser
#93. Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.
Kate Grenville
#94. This place had been here long before him. It would go on sighing and breathing and being itself after he had gone, the land lapping on and on, watching, waiting, getting on with its own life.
Kate Grenville
#95. Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
Grenville Kleiser
#96. Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.
Grenville Kleiser
#97. The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.
Grenville Kleiser
#98. Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.
Grenville Kleiser
#99. The choice word, the correct phrase, are instruments that may reach the heart, and awake the soul if they fall upon the ear in melodious cadence; but if the utterance be harsh and discordant they fail to interest, fall upon deaf ears, and are as barren as seed sown on fallow ground.
Grenville Kleiser
#100. I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.
Kate Grenville
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