Sir Charles Grandison Quotes

#1. So, tell me, Ford - is that a family name? Or did your parents just like trucks?

J.A. Huss

#2. Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.

Samuel Johnson

#3. There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

Eric Hoffer

#4. When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.

Randy Gage

#5. I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

William Whipple

#6. The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.

Benjamin L. Corey

#7. Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

Henry George

#8. One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

Lynne Truss

#9. I don't have children, and I don't want children.

Laverne Cox

#10. I find myself lacing my fingers together and bowing my head. Sometimes my father did this in the morning before sitting down at the breakfast table, but I never asked him what he was doing. Still, I would like to feel like I belong to my father again before I . . . well, before it's over.

Veronica Roth

#11. It happened like this, if it happened at all. I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs.

E. M. Forster