Gerts Grill Quotes & Sayings

Trent nodded, that same tight look about his jaw. "It would have worked except for one thing," he said, and Wayde looked up.
"What's that?" he asked blearily.
Silent, Trent stared at me while my heart hammered, once, twice, three times. "She's got friends," he finally said. — Kim Harrison

No one deserves anything from you. No one deserves your trust or your love - they have to earn it. — An Na

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. — Giordano Bruno

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy. — Jeremy Grantham

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statutes the next. — Alexander Hamilton

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance. — Roberto Cavalli

Those who rule us have brilliantly applied the maxim that the best defense against truth is the unswerving repetition of lies. — Leo Bersani

I realized the only person I can control is me. — Anonymous

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own. — Esha Gupta

I'm one of those guys who would like to weigh about 115 pounds for a couple of hours in the afternoon and then go back to my own size about 5 o'clock. — Richie Allen

...the petrel, mindless of such height,
scales each watery hill
that rises up, adapting to the shape
of each impediment, each low escape
instinct in it, the scope of its flight
fitted to its will. — David Yezzi

Accepting the presidency, Barack introduces "my best friend of sixteen years, the love of my life, Michelle Obama" and I think I will pass out.
That, right there, is love in action. — Emma Forrest

If a man loves you ... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something. — Steve Harvey

It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that ... — Virginia Woolf

It isn't fair, the way some of us have gotten so screwed by life. — Suzanne Young