Christine Granville Quotes & Sayings

For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today. — Clare Mulley

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. — Reed Hastings

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all? — Cynthia Kenyon

Take some time to be silent and repeat the sound of God as an inner mantra. Meditation allows you to make conscious contact with your Source and achieve success in every area. If a problem arises, then go within, get very quiet about it and find the answers inside of you — Wayne Dyer

Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great. — Clare Mulley

But for the most part, for the majority of a stand-up audience, you better have new stuff they've not heard. And if you put an album out, just consider that material gone. At least that's how I see it. — Patton Oswalt

When he came he first covered me with his revolver', Christine write in her official report, but it was not long before Waem put the gun down on the table between them. — Clare Mulley

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking. — Oliver Goldsmith

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind. — Kevin Pietersen

Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake. — Clare Mulley

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. — Logan Pearsall Smith

I think phone cases will always be novelties, but there's always so many interesting phone cases I like phone cases and I think the sillier the better - but this is a cool take on it. — Skrillex

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up. — Daphne Merkin

I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming. — Tony Robbins

It turned out that while you were searching for the meaning of life, you missed the experience of being alive. — Ruth A. Baer

Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it. — Lindsey Wixson

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school. — Patricia Reilly Giff

And he loves her. He loves her like he can never grab enough of her between his fingers — Iain S. Thomas