Janner Quotes & Sayings

I like to play video games and read. — Richard Sherman

A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. — Greville Janner, Baron Janner Of Braunstone

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived. — Gertrude Stein

She turned around and said, "Is there anything I can do?"
It was the only thing she could have said that he couldn't answer with anger, which frustrated Janner even more. If she had asked what was wrong, he would have hurled a perfectly sassy reply right back at her. If she had told him to cheer up, he would have grouched something about how cheery he'd be if he had played with puppies all day. If she had tried to be silly to cheer him up, he would have barked that he was sorry he wasn't in the mood for games.
But "Is there anything I can do?" poured cool water on his fire. It told him that she cared. It told him that she saw he needed something, even if she didn't know what. It told him that she hurt with him. — Andrew Peterson

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS. — Philip Emeagwali

You have good days and bad days. — Usain Bolt

Mercy: "Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet."
Ben: "You killed someone?" Ben asked with interest — Patricia Briggs

Everywhere Janner looked, there were ropes, poles, platforms, and a thousand other ways to break an arm or a leg. It was beautiful. — Andrew Peterson

AMO5.18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. — Anonymous

There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed. — Greville Janner, Baron Janner Of Braunstone

Women are pleasing because they come to us wrapped in the catkin of an enigma and they cease to please when they lose their intrigue.Do women believe that men are only interested in what's between their legs? That would be an error.:men are more attracted by a woman's romantic side than by her sexuality. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

The only woman I have to be better than is the one I was yesterday...I have no competition. — Dawn Jasper

But I don't want to be the Throne Warden," Janner said with all the bitterness he could muster.
"I understand," Nia said. Janner had planned to send her over the edge with that comment, but she didn't seem surprised.
"Sometimes I don't want to be queen. But what I want doesn't change what I am. — Andrew Peterson

Loving people and animals makes us stronger in the right ways and weaker in the right ways. Even if animals and people leave, even if they die, they leave us better. So we keep loving, even though we might lose, because loving teaches us and changes us. — Glennon Doyle Melton

I've won Satan's lottery. — Christopher Moore

She seemed older, no longer shocked that such a thing could happen in the world, but heartbroken because it had. her tears struck Janner as the right kind of tears. — Andrew Peterson

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same. — David Pratt

Parenting is the easiest job to get - you just have to screw up once and it's yours. — Dennis Miller

Our job is to live as well and as long as we can, and to help others to do the same. What happens after that and how we are viewed by others is beyond our control. — Bill Clinton

He was only twelve, but he knew enough to realize that the way before him would be hard. Is it worth it? he asked himself. Was it worth losing his old life in order to learn the truth of who he was and who he was becoming?
Yes.
Like the pluck of a stringed instrument, the first edge of the sun broke loose and poured light over the world. — Andrew Peterson

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation — Jerome Bruner

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have ... — Greville Janner, Baron Janner Of Braunstone

Greater things are believed of those who are absent. — Tacitus

Kalmar nodded. "I'm sorry, Papa. I wasn't strong enough."
"None of us are, lad. Me least of all." Esben smiled and took a rattling breath. "But it's weakness that the Maker turns to strength. Your fur is why you alone loved a dying cloven. You alone in all the world knew my need and ministered to my wounds." Esben pulled Kalmar closer and kissed him on the head. "And in my weakness, I alone know your need. Hear me, son. I loved you when you were born. I loved you when I wept in the Deeps of Throg. I loved you even as you sang the song that broke you. And I love you now in the glory of your humility. You're more fit to be the king than I ever was. Do you understand?"
Kalmar shook his head.
Esben smiled and shuddered with pain. "A good answer, my boy. Then do you believe that I love you?"
"Yes, sir. I believe you." Kalmar buried his face in his father's fur.
"Remember that in the days to come. Nia, Janner, Leeli - help him to remember. — Andrew Peterson

Podo and Leeli finally came back to where the others rested, and though her face still bore the weight of her sorrow, Janner could see that is sister was present. Her eyes didn't see stare into nothing. They saw the situation, grieved for it, and faced it. — Andrew Peterson

You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them. — Greville Janner, Baron Janner Of Braunstone