Simon Grant Quotes

Simon, she'd learned, was a man who studied people. He learned their weaknesses as a way of protecting himself. ~ MacKenzie Taylor

Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home - it is not much,
I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something very few women can claim: my freedom.
I will not lightly surrender it. ~ Geraldine Brooks

God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference. ~ Ron Sims

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. ~ Neil Simon

Don't think you can ever forget her
don't even try
she's not going to budge
no choice but to grant her space
crown her with sky
for she is one of the many
and she is each of us ~ Rita Dove

Is it your wish that I should leave you now?" "Why would you think that of me?" His eyebrows rose, the vulnerability gone. "You are not a servant, Mariana, to be thus ordered from my sight." "No," I admitted, looking down at my feet, "I am not a servant. I am a mistress. A minor difference, I'll grant you." His eyes were steady on my face. "You are my love," he corrected me, softly, "and there is no shame in that. Do you wish this afternoon undone?" I raised my head. "No," I told him honestly. "I will not force you to my bed," he said. "I do not want a frightened woman, nor a coy one, but one who gives me love because she wills it so. If I make no promises, it is because the world is an uncertain place, and words matter little. But if you doubt the honor of my love, come," he stretched his hand towards me, palm upward, "let me renew my pledge. ~ Susanna Kearsley

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up. ~ Grant Cardone

I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw. ~ Simon R. Green

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste. ~ Simon Blackburn

Clary hesitated - only for a moment, but the moment stretched out as long as any moment ever had. She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything. - an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps those things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would have already been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.
It didn't matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in he end, only one real choice.
She raised her eyes to the Angel's.
Jace. ~ Cassandra Clare

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House. ~ Jeff Greenfield

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life. ~ Simon Heffer

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them. ~ Ulysses S. Grant

Organizations should say and do the things they ACTUALLY believe. ~ Simon Sinek

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent. ~ Paul Simon

Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."
"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Band? Simon inquired. "No, probably not. ~ Cassandra Clare

How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool. ~ Simon Raven

How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all. ~ Simon Blackburn

The cost of leadership is self-interest. ~ Simon Sinek

It smacked of mad science, and I should know, since I'm sort of a mad scientist's devastatingly beautiful daughter and all- or maybe just her devastating daughter, since I'm pretty good at the destruction thing- and mad science never ended well for the people who woke up in chains. ~ Mira Grant

When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smiling, and all the children are frowning. ~ Amy Grant

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. ~ Grant Morrison

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams. ~ Simon Cowell

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent. ~ Elie Wiesel

...no elves or CPAs or other mythological creatures appeared to do my paperwork in the interim ~ Mira Grant

Benno was the kind of bully who did what the bigger bullies told him to do. He didn't make his own judgments. And he wasn't stupid enough to think he could override Caine's orders. Something ~ Michael Grant

Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste. ~ Simon Singh

The number of her acquaintances multiplied over the years as the number of her true friendships diminished. The Grant Longitudinal Study found that people who were neglected in childhood are much more likely to be friendless in old age... Erica was not solitary. But sometimes she felt she lived in crowded solitude. She was around a shifting mass of semi-friends, but was without a small circle of intimates.
Over the years, in other words, she had become more superficial. She had been publicly active but privately neglectful. She had, over the course of her career, reorganized her own brain in ways that were perhaps necessary to professional achievement, but which were not satisfying now that her drive for worldly achievement had been fulfilled.
She entered retirement beset by a feeling of general numbness. p341-2 ~ David Brooks

The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth! ~ Jonathan Edwards

When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from. ~ Simon Sinek

Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade ~ Cassandra Clare

I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

What is the point of a relationship if not to grant two people the very private privilege to uplift one another every day? ~ Kamand Kojouri