Top 100 Groat's Quotes
#1. Everyone had their levers. Often it was greed. Greed was a reliable old standby. Sometimes it was pride. That was Groat's lever. He desperately wanted promotion; you could see it in his eyes. Find the lever, and then it was plain sailing.
Terry Pratchett
#2. The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain's machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, the lubricant for the soul.
Dan Groat
#3. Gifford Ulrich didn't know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn't sleep in alleys.
Dan Groat
#4. I don't have to save them all, just a few, or one, and then that one has to go out and save another one until this half-dead world begins to climb out of the grave it's standing in waiting for someone to throw dirt on it.
Dan Groat
#5. He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.
Dan Groat
#6. I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?
Dan Groat
#7. Responsibility is definitely not something you feel; it is something you wear.
Dan Groat
#8. He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.
Benjamin Franklin
#9. The only way the meek will ever inherit the earth is when they get ground into it by the heel of someone else's boot.
Dan Groat
#10. The weak thrive on indulgence.
Dan Groat
#11. We lose keys and we find keys and we get new keys. We just have to find the ones that unlock the right doors. Sometimes, we have keys, but we don't know what door they fit. That can be the hardest part, putting the right key in the right door.
Dan Groat
#12. If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing.
Dan Groat
#13. Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.
Dan Groat
#14. Fear was like a tick to them. They knew there were times when it was going to crawl on them, but they sure didn't want it embedded in their skin and sucking their blood.
Dan Groat
#15. Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.
Dan Groat
#16. Memories with laughter are the best ones to keep.
Dan Groat
#17. It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.
Dan Groat
#18. Saying it ain't fair, over and over again while you stand in front of a wrecking ball is kinda senseless, I think.
Dan Groat
#19. One of the worst things I've learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don't like than there was when you were younger and you can't do nothin' about it.
Dan Groat
#20. There ain't nothin' you can say about war that ain't personal. It's all personal.
Dan Groat
#21. Death was an old acquaintance. They had met before. They were not friends. Not enemies, either.
Dan Groat
#22. Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.
Dan Groat
#23. Both parents passed away of the Gnats on their farm out in the wilds, sir, and he was raised by peas.' 'Surely you mean on peas, Mr Groat?' 'By peas, sir
Terry Pratchett
#24. Everything will be fine. I've heard that my whole life. Everything will be fine. That's baloney.
Dan Groat
#25. We shook hands the way men do when they're trying to say something more than goodbye.
Dan Groat
#26. It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it's so much better than before because of something you did.
Dan Groat
#27. I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you're in trouble.
Dan Groat
#28. I'm not lookin' to be anybody's keeper. What I say and do is meant to protect me. If it works for somebody else, that's okay, but I don't want people depending on me to save them.
Dan Groat
#29. Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society's so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I'm not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the making and spending of money. I know it's not just me.
Dan Groat
#30. I need to work. It's the one time my thoughts will cooperate with me.
Dan Groat
#31. Just make sure the day doesn't pass without sayin' what's in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they're gone forever.
Dan Groat
#32. Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had.
Dan Groat
#33. I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.
Dan Groat
#34. What kind of country has this become? Decent people can't do anything without being watched.
Dan Groat
#35. There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.
Dan Groat
#36. Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don't.
Dan Groat
#37. Evil won't leave you alone until you take a stand or until you're dead.
Dan Groat
#38. Everybody dies. It's no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.
Dan Groat
#39. If all you do is think about what you need, you're no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you've got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.
Dan Groat
#40. Sometimes, you need to spit stuff out in words to get it better arranged in your head. I figure if you never talk about it, it just picks its own spot and lays there and festers.
Dan Groat
#42. I heard a Lannister always pays his debts."
"Oh, every penny ... but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.
George R R Martin
#43. Don't ever use a shovel to swat a fly.
Dan Groat
#44. Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.
Dan Groat
#45. Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.
Dan Groat
#46. They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how.
Dan Groat
#47. A government that thinks it can remedy personal failure is an intrusion in everybody's life. No law is going to cure a human's lack of physical or mental effectiveness. I'd rather see democracy promote strength than reward weakness.
Dan Groat
#48. Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.
Dan Groat
#49. You can be spiritual all by yourself. Everybody has a soul. But to be religious, it seems like you need other people, and then sometimes it becomes more about the people than the soul.
Dan Groat
#50. What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home.
Dan Groat
#51. He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.
Dan Groat
#52. As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.
Dan Groat
#53. Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.
Dan Groat
#54. Winning and losing was suddenly elevated to be about things that had no score and no teams and no uniforms; just one player at a time dealing with his life, his own struggle, his own triumph and torment.
Dan Groat
#55. How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn't start for reasons we're too devious to tell the truth about? It's way too easy for governments to spend other people's blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.
Dan Groat
#56. If you decide to take somebody on, don't look behind you, because there won't be anybody there. You'll be all alone.
Dan Groat
#57. Groat and penny are the smallest coins, worth the least, and what's worse, they chose the names themselves.
George R R Martin
#58. A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
Benjamin Franklin
#59. When you're anonymous, other opinions shrink next to the sounds in your own head.
Dan Groat
#60. The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.
Dan Groat
#61. All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.
William Blake
#62. It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know. Smart is a big help to a man; wise is a big help to lots of men.
Dan Groat
#63. True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.
Dan Groat
#64. Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don't save yourself, they will die.
Dan Groat
#65. In this country our principles should not be silent.
Dan Groat
#66. The world has a way of dragging down our mood.
Dan Groat
#68. Hope is a carrot tied to the stick of tomorrow.
Dan Groat
#69. (H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.
Howard Pyle
#70. The true soldier knows nothing but war, and the true soldier, for lack of an enemy, attacks himself.
Dan Groat
#71. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.
Dan Groat
#72. Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.
Dan Groat
#73. They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.
Dan Groat
#74. Evil stinks and it doesn't disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.
Dan Groat
#75. A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in.
Dan Groat
#76. I can't tell you what's in all of God's plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. That's what gives you the chance to be great in his sight. He gave you a mind and codes to live by so you could be in charge of your own actions.
Dan Groat
#77. Giants bleed like everybody else.
Dan Groat
#78. The world bein' so small ain't always a good thing for those of us who ain't searchin' for new and different stuff.
Dan Groat
#79. There is a silent deference for one another, a distance that is kept, and lines that aren't crossed, but in their sharing, they each try to pay tribute to the bond in their own way. As often as possible, they open up a little and give what they can.
Dan Groat
#80. It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.
Dan Groat
#81. Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.
Dan Groat
#82. We learn to love when we're young. If we learn hating better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else.
Dan Groat
#83. I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.
Dan Groat
#84. My name Quan. Quan Nguyen. This Kim-Ly, wife. We next door. Do nails. We with Mr. Blaylock. He fight, we fight. We come here from Viet Nam. This good country, but sometimes, good people in good country have to fight.
Dan Groat
#85. Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place.
Dan Groat
#86. He had no ability to give up. It wasn't that he didn't want to quit, he couldn't. It wasn't in him. It never had been.
Dan Groat
#87. BORN UNDER A THREEPENNY HALFPENNY PLANET, NEVER TO BE WORTH A GROAT. Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. BOTCH.
Francis Grose
#88. We who are dreamers and doers want only the chance to dream and do, to have an idea and to try to carry it out without interference.
Dan Groat
#89. Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.
Dan Groat
#90. As I have aged, I've been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.
Dan Groat
#91. Now, it's time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that's gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin' a lie to his son from his death bed. What's the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?
Dan Groat
#92. There is no end to the hatred in men, but there is an end to the hatred in a man. If your hatred is just, and deeds will get you to the end of it, then go and do what must be done.
Dan Groat
#93. Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops.
Dan Groat
#94. We are born among relatives. Family is defined by loyalty.
Dan Groat
#95. Peace, a commodity purchased with friendship and safety and anything comfortable and all things familiar; peace that was a pleasant melody playing through the moments of their day; a chord striking only the notes of security and agreement and understanding and order.
Dan Groat
#96. The bones of the oak tree that had stood by the spring branch during my youth were scattered about the ground, pieces of the skeleton of a majestic life that had passed while I was off growing up and old.
Dan Groat
#97. My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.
Dan Groat
#98. Surviving is about need. Living is about want.
Dan Groat
#99. [bookcover:A Punctual Paymaster|25707312]
"Responsibility is definitely not something you feel; it is something you wear."
Dan Groat
Dan Groat
#100. Time is not tinder for any flame. It will not gather a spark; it will not smolder. It will not change.
Dan Groat
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