Groby Hall Quotes & Sayings

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud. — Cory Doctorow

These little grey cells. It is up to them. — Agatha Christie

The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made people rise to real ambition, real gravity was the sense of posterity, for example - a word that I can remember hearing quite often when I was a child and I never hear anymore. People actually wanted to make the world good for people in generations that they would never see. It makes people think in very large terms to try to liberate women, for example, or to try to eliminate slavery. — Marilynne Robinson

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. — Elie Wiesel

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don't have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn't a global 911 to call. — Charles Eisenstein

As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn. — Tony Bennett

The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely. — Thomas Malthus