Winston Grime (Winston Mawdsley Graham) Quotes

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them…

Winston Grime

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• While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Decisions

• In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Political
  • Team

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Everyone

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fear
  • Constitution
  • Debate

• A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Woman

• I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Why
  • Example

• But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Dog

• It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Weird
  • Holiday
  • Friday

• Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Women
  • Business

• 'Pilar - remember - nothing is so boring as devotion.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Remember

• You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about.

  

  Liz Williams
  • Long
  • Risk

• I want all my pain to count for something.

  

  Ann Jillian
  • Pain

• I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do. I really couldn't. I'd rather miss out on the twist.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Character

• I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Nice
  • Funeral

• Every week, it's always something memorable.

  

  Denis Shapovalov

• I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.

  

  Katie Leung
  • Amazing
  • Phoenix

• The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

  

  Geoff Downes Yes
  • Environment
  • Road

• Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Nothing
  • Lose
  • Having

• Can you not see the numerous designs made by God as signs, similitudes, or analogies of resurrection? He has placed them in every era, the alteration of day and night, even in the coming and going of clouds.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Night
  • Clouds

• However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Believe
  • Fight
  • Right

• The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

  

  William James
  • Country
  • May
  • Teacher

• It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them…

  

  Winston Grime
  • Feelings
  • Fool
  • To Be