Manton Quotes

#1. Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.

Henry Bolingbroke

#2. [Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

Steven Levy

#3. The hallowing of God's Name is the END toward which His Kingdom coming and the accomplishment of His will are among the MEANS.

Thomas Manton

#4. He was so close to me in that moment, too close, but I had never pushed a guy away for that. If anything I pulled them nearer, taking them in, as I did now, sure in my belief that knowing me that well would easily be enough to scare them away.

Sarah Dessen

#5. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of the life to start as soon as possible. - Harry Burns

Nora Roberts

#6. We were also in Chicago at the same time, and we agreed about our future. (This is back before we were married. The constant agreeing ends, like three minutes after the ceremony. Two if you're both Italian.)

Hillary Manton Lodge

#7. Sin is sweet in commission, but bitter in remembrance.

Thomas Manton

#8. Young girls have such sweet tooths. Or is that sweet teeth?

Margaret Atwood

#9. You pick out the big men! I'll make them brave!

Pyrrhus Of Epirus

#10. We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

Andy Stanley

#11. I put my bare hand on her bare hand and felt, "This is genuine. There can be no mistake about this.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

Samuel Beckett

#14. The creature's good is a superadded quality, in God it is His essence. He is infinitely good; the creature's good is but a drop, but in God there in an infinite ocean or gathering together of good.

Thomas Manton

#15. You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

James Frey