Grinter House Quotes & Sayings

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Second. - The Christian is to walk singularly, not after the world's guise, Rom. 12:2. We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world. — William Gurnall

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern. — James Gleick

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health. — Avicenna

Cyrus walked straight to the tallest crack of light, a seam between two doors. They were locked, but they were also thin and old, and they bent a little with pressure from his shoulder.

He backed up.

"Try one of Skelton's keys," said Antigone. "Is there a keyhole?"

"Nope." Cyrus threw himself against the doors. Wood popped, but he bounced back. "I can break it."

"You mean a rib? Maybe your shoulder?" Antigone adjusted her grip, propping Horace in front of her.

"There's just one little bolt," said Cyrus. "And it's set in old wood." He paused. What was he hearing? Voices. Shouting. "You hear that?" he asked.

Antigone nodded. "They don't sound happy."

This time, Cyrus used his foot. The wood splintered, and the two doors wobbled open onto a world of emerald and sunlight. — N.D. Wilson

Then I remember:These people are Brazilian-they come out of the womb salsa-ing to the rhythm of the contractions. — Amanda Hudson

We are the sum total of our choices. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3. — Beau Willimon

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. — Edmund Burke

Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece. — John Creasey

If you are open, vulnerable, disclosing, more likely than not it will be reciprocated and walls will come down. — Susan Scott