Mannering Quotes

#1. A little more than he bargained for, perhaps," said Dick Mannering. "It's always that - when it's the truth," replied Balfour.

Eleanor Catton

#2. But shame, for Mannering, was an emotion that attended only failure; he could not be made to feel compunction if he had not, in his own estimation, failed.

Eleanor Catton

#3. They sat in silence for a moment. Then Mannering said, gruffly, 'What you're telling me is that this isn't the whole picture.
'Luck is never the whole picture' said Staines.

Eleanor Catton

#4. A lucky man, I've always said, is a man who was lucky once, and after that, he learned a thing or two about investment. Luck only happens once and it's always an accident when it does. (Dick Mannering
19th century New Zealand goldfields magnate)

Eleanor Catton

#5. Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Pg 623 When they were young, they had only their secrets to give one another:
Confessions were currency, and divulgences were a form of intimacy.

Hanya Yanagihara

#7. I'm not someone who's an immigrant who's struggling in that way, but between New York and L.A., I had someone tell me very early on, "If you're going to be broke anywhere, it's better to be broke in L.A. At least the weather is nice." I was like, "You're right." I didn't take them up on that.

Greta Gerwig

#8. You seriously believe that someone who married a fruit bat could have been the architect of a global conspiracy that has stood unchallenged for over one hundred years?' 'Absolutely,' Drakeforth nodded.

Paul Mannering

#9. Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

Dean Koontz

#10. We can try to run," he said. "But one day we must all face our past.

G.R. Mannering

#11. You may plant your acres again and raise up your fallen orchard and vineyards, but they will never flourish as they used to, never
until you learn to take joy in them, for no reason.

Peter S. Beagle

#12. No.' I started pushing the trolley again. 'If we quit now and later on realise that things could have got an awful lot worse, we'll kick ourselves for giving up when things were going quite well.

Paul Mannering

#13. With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#14. A master is merely someone who started doing something before you,' Hoptoad said.

Paul Mannering

#15. I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

Peter Fonda

#16. I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

Kara Walker

#17. Belief in a child nurtures the belief of a child.

Renata Bowers

#18. It's not can you, it's will you

Tony Robbins