Quotes By Famous Authors: [G]
If I had a cat I'd buy another one so I could kick one and then the other.
Now that the spectres of violence and spoliation had fled, the few hundred people who made up "the world" never tired of meeting each other, ...
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and ...
Five Days in London is the title of John Lukac's
The heart's the trouble. It knows the monster but remembers the love.
Yes, we like to think of our children as Macintosh computers operating in a world full of PCs; they get the same answers but process ...
Hulagu Khan's Mongol forces burn Baghdad to the ground, killing 1,000,000 citizens.
When we grow in spiritual consciousness, we identify with all that is in the world there is no exploitation. It is ourselves we're helping, ourselves ...
OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.
Sometimes institutional progress gets thrown into reverse, often when the programmes are attacked by the financial managers, occasionally through lack of foresight and planning and ...
True charity consists in this: that those whose needs are greatest receive first.25
When there is no way in which men can believe in the fundamental morality of a social system, even one then profit by, that system ...
There were no aisles, so to get to the empty cot I had to climb over other senators. The first was Ted Kennedy. He was ...
But when it comes to telling stories in a marketing context, you generally want to inspire your audience.
Take off your undead blinders and open your dismembered arms to progress. Fast zombies are scarier, plain and simple!
Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I don't know how many pounds he outweighs me by ... I still try to do things like him ...
Poetry is a hook for memory
My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.
The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance
There is more power in starting your story from a little concept that we call the Organizing Idea, an idea that is an active expression ...
Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.
Values offer focus amidst the chaos.
When you face the challenges of this world, be they real or what you claim to be imaginary, then face them with your heart. For ...
We have to bear in mind that culture is not necessarily transmitted in proportion to people's numbers. One charismatic personality will suffice to release a ...
When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the ...
My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.
Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.
Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work ...
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness ... I was right.
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
For now, we live in the mall, but I think it's closing soon.
We wanted a periodical that would help people live richer, fuller, freer, more self-directed lives.
We are in the interstices. In the intervals. We are that which moves between the spaces. Which conjures up the spaces.
What is the crowning glory of your civilization ... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this ...
Today was also The Grass is Always Browner on the Other Side Day - a day to celebrate what you have, and not to be ...
... Love has to be received, and it comes in many different forms.
Anger is a golden opportunity to practise patience.
In early Meiji one yen was worth a little more than one American dollars;
Just remember, a person who can solve problems efficiently either knows a particular strategy for the type of problem or extracts something from the problem ...
There is no such thing as high returns without risk.
Naturally, my Jewish mother, like all Jewish mothers, wanted me to be a doctor, or a lawyer... or as she used to say, "Be something!" ...
I don't have a least favorite [movie] or favorite anything except love versus non-love. Love's my favorite, non-love's my least favorite.
Being a writer is like standing naked in the High Street hoping people won't find you ridiculous.
The solution to the mystery is always inferior to the mystery itself.
If you at first don't succeed, try and try again.
Questions do not prove anything in themselves; rather, they provide opportunities to investigate an answer.
If I saved all the money I spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer.
In religion even when the reward is far the hope is so immediate.
If you cannot change, why you expect others to change?
My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his ...