Grace > Grace's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 152
« previous 1 3 4 5 6
sort by

  • #1
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #5
    Glenn Beck
    “Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.”
    Glenn Beck

  • #6
    Glenn Beck
    “All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.”
    Glenn Beck

  • #7
    Harry Truman
    “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
    Harry S. Truman

  • #8
    Harry Truman
    “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
    Harry S. Truman

  • #9
    Harry Truman
    “If you can't convince them, confuse them.”
    Harry S. Truman

  • #10
    Harry Truman
    “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
    Harry S. Truman

  • #11
    Harry Truman
    “There's nothing better than cake but more cake.”
    Harry S. Truman

  • #12
    David McCullough
    “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ”
    David McCullough

  • #13
    David McCullough
    “If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.”
    David McCullough

  • #14
    David McCullough
    “Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.”
    David McCullough
    tags: books

  • #15
    Eric    Weiner
    “There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.”
    Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

  • #16
    Sue Grafton
    “Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”
    Sue Grafton

  • #17
    Sue Grafton
    “In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.”
    Sue Grafton, Q is for Quarry

  • #18
    Agatha Christie
    “Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

    [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]”
    Agatha Christie, The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

  • #19
    Agatha Christie
    “You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  • #21
    Agatha Christie
    “I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
    Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

  • #22
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #23
    Agatha Christie
    “I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #24
    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #25
    Agatha Christie
    “I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”
    Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train

  • #26
    Agatha Christie
    “There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.”
    Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger

  • #27
    Dick Francis
    “Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.”
    Dick Francis, To the Hilt

  • #28
    Dick Francis
    “But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.”
    Dick Francis, Whip Hand

  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #31
    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    Mark Twain



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6