But For The Grace Quotes

“Perhaps the messiness of life makes a nonsense of morality and the simplistic notions of right and wrong upon which ‘the law’ was founded.”
― Robert Partridge, But For The Grace

“You had to keep fighting or your independence and your dignity were gone in a moment and forever.”
― Robert Partridge, But For The Grace

“Maggie told him about her own father and the importance of ‘the chair’; as the world of the aged shrinks, the items that remain within it take on greater and greater value. ‘The chair’ becomes the tiny territory from which what remains of our lives is viewed, an eyrie, a lonely crag…”
― Peter Grainger, But For The Grace

“Maggie told him about her own father and the importance of ‘the chair’; as the world of the aged shrinks, the items that remain within it take on greater and greater value. ‘The chair’ becomes the tiny territory from which what remains of our lives is viewed, an eyrie, a lonely crag… Smith gave her a quizzical look and said that he would not write that down but that it was very poetic. Third,”
― Peter Grainger, But For The Grace

“people too are all of those things, and if you don’t learn to work out people you remain a clodhopper, a slave to procedures and processes, someone who pursues targets rather than wrongdoers.”
― Peter Grainger, But For The Grace

“Perhaps the messiness of life makes a nonsense of morality.”
― Peter Grainger, But For The Grace

“hassalled”
― Peter Grainger, But For The Grace

“The blown bush at the window, or the sun’s faint friendliness on the wall some lonely rain-ceased midsummer evening.”
― Peter Grainger, But For The Grace