Quotes by Authors - G
Quotes by Authors - G
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Macho does not prove mucho.
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
John Kenneth GalbraithUnder capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
Zora GaleI don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Galileo GalileiI have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.
In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GallagherEven if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Terry GallowayDeafness has left me acutely aware of both the duplicity that language is capable of and the many expressions the body cannot hide.
Indira GandhiYou can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Mahatma GandhiHonest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
(when asked what he thought of Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.
A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
God has no religion.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Ed GardnerOpera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Garbage Truck, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997Satisfaction Guaranteed or Double Your Garbage Back.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.When I drive to my house and go through the black neighborhood that’s between the two white neighborhoods, I don’t see black kids packing books at five o’clock. They have a basketball, and they’re going down to the courts. We have to change the erroneous assumption that you have a better chance of being Magic Johnson than you do of being a brain surgeon.
Jules de GaultierImagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Sir Gawain and the Green KnightFor though we be entered where the way was not opened, never will they bring us if we do not choose to come. And never may we enter where the way is not opened; never may I bring her if she does not choose to come. And never may she enter where the way is not opened; never may she bring me if I do not choose to come.
- I thank you.[Gentles are m]en who, knowing that maleness touched women only with the accumulated hatred of centuries, touched no women. Ever.
It is too simple...to condemn them all or to praise all of us. But for the sake of the earth and all she holds, that simplicity must be our creed.
Seeing she wore nothing beneath the chestpiece, Seja immediately removed her own shirt, baring her breasts in equal fashion.
If I do not give from my overflow, then what I give is poison.
...Ijeme knew that she was in the presence of a woman - but not a woman as she knew women. This was the city edition, the man’s edition, the only edition aceptable to men, streamlined to his exact specifications, her body guaranteed to be limited, dependent, and constantly available.
What we are not, we each could be, and every woman is myself.
Meaningful communication is the meeting of two vessels, equally vulnerable, equally receptive, and equally desirous of hearing. In the listening is all real speaking.
Christian Furchtegott GellertLive as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
David Lloyd GeorgeDon't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Rosemonde GerardFor you see, each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Karen Gershon(from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Kahlil GibranThe lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul.
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred may neither understand you or know your true worth.
God made truth with many doors to welcome any believer who knocks on them.
How gravely the glutton councils the famished to bear the pangs of hunger.
A singer cannot delight you with his singing unless he himself delights to sing.
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Souls are fires whose ashes are the bodies.
The pain that accompanies love, invention, and responsibility also gives delight.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Love, like death, changes everything.
Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation.
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Would it not be more economical for the government to build asylums for the sane instead of the demented?
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
To you who praise the "happy medium" to me as a way of life, I reply, "Who wants to be lukewarm between cold and hot, or tremble between life and death, or be a jelly, neither fluid nor solid?"
The heartbreak of love sings; the sadness of knowledge speaks; the melancholy of desire whispers; and the anguish of poverty weeps. But there is a sorrow deeper than love, loftier than knowledge, stronger than desire, and more bitter than poverty. It is mute and has no voice; its eyes glitter like stars.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
The significance of man is not in what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.
(from The Prophet) When love beckons to you, follow him,(also from The Prophet) You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Once I, deemed myself a poet. But when I stood before him in Bethany I knew what is was to hold an instrument with but a single string before one who commands all instruments.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Andre GideBelieve those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Gillette - rock musicianThere is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Emile de GirardinA woman whom we truly love is a religion.
Jean GiraudouxOnly the mediocre are always at their best.
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Arnold GlasowExpecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Rumer Godden(from A House With Four Rooms) There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.
Gail GodwinGood teaching is 1/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheLove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
(from a letter to Eckermann, Feb. 4, 1829) I call architecture frozen music.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
(from Faust) He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Robert F. GoheenIf you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
William Goldman(from The Princess Bride) But love is many things, none of them logical.
Oliver GoldsmithYou can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Senator Barry Goldwater(when asked what he thought of Jerry Falwell's suggestion that all good Christians should be against Sandra Day O'Connor's nomination to the Supreme Court) I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell's ass.
GoncourtIf there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Rabbi Julius GordonLove is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Maxim GorkyOnly mothers can think of the future -- because they give birth to it in their children.
GoyaFantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Martha GrahamThe only sin is mediocrity.
Gunter GrassEven bad books are books and therefore sacred.
Robert GravesTo know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).
Gian Vincenzo GravinaA bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Inscription found on a Greek libraryThe medicine chest of the soul.
Greek ProverbsAct quickly, think slowly.
The heart that loves is always young.
Carolyn GreenI don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.
Graham GreenHeresy is another word for freedom of thought.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
Russell GreenThe advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth it prevents you from achieving.
Matt GroeningLove is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.