Top 100 John Gray Quotes

#1. A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

John Gray

John Gray Quotes #951
#2. If women become too much like men, men lose purpose, meaning, and inspiration in life.

John Gray

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#3. What is so admirable in being ruled by a need for peace of mind ?

John N. Gray

John Gray Quotes #14003
#4. when men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom

John Gray

John Gray Quotes #22740
#5. From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

John N. Gray

John Gray Quotes #22899
#6. Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

John Milton

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#7. Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.

John Steinbeck

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#8. Polytheism is too delicate a way of thinking for modern minds.

John N. Gray

John Gray Quotes #51271
#9. If you put a bit of butter or sour cream on your potato, the release of sugar into the bloodstream is slowed.

John Gray

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#10. It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do is give another twist to a normal madness.

John N. Gray

John Gray Quotes #55362
#11. As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When the way is flat and dull in times of gray endurance, may your imagination continue to evoke horizons.

John O'Donohue

John Gray Quotes #84874
#12. Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.

John Gray

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#13. Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

John Steinbeck

John Gray Quotes #116421
#14. Quite often, when one partner makes a positive change the other will also change. This predictable coincidence is one of those magical things about life.

John Gray

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#15. Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

John Banville

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#16. Everything that exists is a type of matter, he believed, including what we call the soul. We are reluctant to give up the distinction between matter and mind because we cannot imagine matter thinking. But, for Leopardi, the fact that we think shows that matter thinks:

John N. Gray

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#17. Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.

John Gray

John Gray Quotes #136118
#18. Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.

John N. Gray

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#19. Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.

John Gray

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#20. When man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossom

John Gray

John Gray Quotes #163154
#21. He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.

John Le Carre

John Gray Quotes #186269
#22. Books can inspire you to love yourself more, but by listening to, writing out, or verbally expressing your feelings you are actually doing it.

John N. Gray

John Gray Quotes #201648
#23. In Europe and Japan, bourgeois life lingers on. In Britain and America it has become the stuff of theme parks. The middle class is a luxury capitalism can no longer afford.

John N. Gray

John Gray Quotes #216953
#24. Even in the latter case nature exhibits a kind of intelligence, and there is no reason to rule out the possibility that machines will do so too. If nature in the form of the human species could bring forth intelligent machines, the process of evolution would continue among the machines.

John N. Gray

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#25. In a competition for mates a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage. The same is true in politics and and other contexts

John Gray

John Gray Quotes #228316
#26. humankind's presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer

John N. Gray

John Gray Quotes #234942
#27. Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.

John Gray

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#28. The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than the sings of humans. What is distinctively human is not the capacity for language. It is the crystallisation of language in writing.

John N. Gray

John Gray Quotes #259538
#29. History is a treadmill turned by rising human numbers. Today GM crops are being marketed as the only means of avoiding mass starvation. They are unlikely to improve the lives of peasant farmers ; but they may well enable them to survive in greater numbers.

John Gray

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#30. So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

John Greenleaf Whittier

John Gray Quotes #300526
#31. Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

John Gray

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#32. I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray.

Gin Wigmore

John Gray Quotes #310222
#33. It is not enough to merely be authentic in sharing yourself; to succeed in dating you need to consider how you will be interpreted as well.

John Gray

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#34. That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.

John Gray

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#35. Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.

John Gray

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#36. Global laissez-faire is not a conspiracy of corporate America. It is a tragedy - one of several that have occurred in the twentieth century - in which an hubristic ideology runs aground on enduring human needs that it has failed to comprehend.

John Gray

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#37. We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.

John Edward Gray

John Gray Quotes #415715
#38. Nothing is more incendiary to an ill-advised, unanticipated tryst than to be enclosed in a darkened, plush-upholstered, moving chamber. Privacy, Intimacy, Darkness, Transience: the Four Whorsemen of the Apocalypse.

John MacLachlan Gray

John Gray Quotes #424572
#39. The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

John Gray

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#40. It is very difficult for a man to differentiate between empathy and sympathy. He hates to be pitied.

John Gray

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#41. He saw the world through gray water.

John Steinbeck

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#42. Always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself

John Gray

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#43. It is not what we say that hurts but how we say it.

John N. Gray

John Gray Quotes #485799
#44. More than Christianity, the religion of Victorian times was a belief in human advance - the conviction that freed from ignorance and superstition, humanity could expand its power and be master of its destiny.

John N. Gray

John Gray Quotes #496741
#45. Human knowledge is one thing, human wellbeing another. There is no predetermined harmony between the two. The examined life may not be worth living.

John N. Gray

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#46. Although feelings of attraction are automatic, in order to sustain attraction in a personal relationship we must also be skillful in presenting ourselves in ways that are not just appealing to the other sex but supportive as well. It is not enough to say, Here I am; take me as I am.

John Gray

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#47. was in the Gray family forever, way back to the early

John Grisham

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#48. As this pain comes up also focus on the love you feel for him/her. Focus on the love. Love feels good, love is expansive. Love is open and accepting. This love you feel is healing the pain of your loss. One day soon your pain will go and only the love will remain.

John Gray

John Gray Quotes #542018
#49. What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

Mike Birbiglia

John Gray Quotes #548297
#50. Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

John Irving

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#51. Men, if you're traveling with your wife or girlfriend and she mentions that it's time to start looking for a restaurant, you need to sit up and take notice. This means her blood sugar level has dropped and, for you, it ought to be a red alert with flashing lights and sirens. Get that woman fed!

John Gray

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#52. The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.

John Greenleaf Whittier

John Gray Quotes #572278
#53. Men argue for the right to be free while women argue for the right to be upset. Men want space while women want understanding.

John Gray

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#54. Alone among the animals, humans seek meaning in their lives by killing and dying for the sake of nonsensical dreams.

John N. Gray

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#55. One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

John MacLachlan Gray

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#56. Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.

The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on.

John N. Gray

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#57. John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

Douglas Brinkley

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#58. The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a woman's primary love needs is through communication. By learning to listen to a woman's feelings, a man can effectively shower a woman with caring, understanding, respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance ...

John Gray

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#59. When she says "I feel like you are not even here," he says "What do you mean I'm not here? Of course I am here. Don't you see my body?

John Gray

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#60. To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

John Steinbeck

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#61. In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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#62. The surface of the earth crusted. a thin hard crust,and as the sky became pale,so the earth became pale, pink in the red contry and white in the gray contry. (1) this describes the form of the book how the earth has been swallowed by the sun and allows you to assume that the farms are destroded

John Steinbeck

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#63. A woman should not be judged for needing this reassurance, just as a man should not be judged for needing to withdraw.

John Gray

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#64. We think we have some kind of privileged access to our own motives and intentions. In fact we have no clear insight into what moves us to live as we do. The stories we tell ourselves are like the messages that appear on Ouija boards. If we are authors of our lives, it is only in retrospect.

John N. Gray

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#65. When misunderstandings arise, remember that we speak different languages; take the time necessary to translate what your partner really means or wants to say. This definitely takes practice, but it is well worth it.

John Gray

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#66. The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how ...

John Ashbery

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#67. When men and women are single for a long time, the differences are sometimes not as defined.

John Gray

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#68. Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

John Gray

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#69. Men need to remember that when women seem upset and talk about problems is not the time to offer solutions; instead she needs to be heard, and gradually she will feel better on her own.

John Gray

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#70. I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

John Millington Synge

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#71. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

John Mahoney

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#72. His gray suit makes him seem extra vulnerable, in the way of children placed in unaccustomed clothes for ceremonies they don't understand.

John Updike

John Gray Quotes #812075
#73. If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

John Gray

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#74. And the fierce wind is an echo of angry childhood and of a very scared boy looking out the window - remembering my dead dog outside by the wounded house as the gray Texas dust gradually covered her up - and thinking: It isnt fair! Why cant dogs go to Heaven?

John Rechy

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#75. As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

John Gray

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#76. In science, progress is a fact, in ethics and politics it is a superstition.

John Gray

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#77. To fully express their feelings, women assume poetic license and use various superlatives, metaphors, and generalizations. Men mistakenly take these expressions literally. Because they misunderstand the intended meaning, they commonly react in an unsupportive manner.

John Gray

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#78. No one questioned the Machine's powers. Religion had been re-established with the Machine as the Supreme Being. Everyone yielded to 'some invincible pressure, which came no one knew whither, and which, when gratified, was succeeded by some new pressure equally invincible.

John N. Gray

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#79. Over the past two hundred years philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error -the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals.

John Gray

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#80. Men mistakenly expect women to think, communicate, and react the way men do; women mistakenly expect men to feel, communicate, and respond the way women do.

John Gray

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#81. Fortunately perfection is not a requirement for creating great relationships.

John Gray

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#82. In all such local tragedies time works like a damp brush on water color. The sharp edges blur, the ache goes out of it, the colors melt together, and from the many separated lines a solid gray emerges.

John Steinbeck

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#83. Mental chemistry creates interest, Emotional chemistry Generates Affection, Physical chemistry generates desire, and Spiritual chemistry creates love. A soulmate includes all four...and I will not settle for anything less!

John Gray

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#84. After learning , please be realistic.
Give yourself a permission to keep making mistakes.
We must also give ourselves the gift of understanding that we can't remember everything we learned at once

John Gray

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#85. You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments ...

John Gray

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#86. We are unique individuals with unique experiences

John Gray

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#87. Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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#88. Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

John Gray

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#89. To think of humans as freedom-loving, you must be ready to view nearly all of history as a mistake.

John N. Gray

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#90. What I learned was that the more you commit to the process and the more you trust God for increase in every area of your life, the more God allows the scales to tip in your favor until one day the momentum is so tremendous that there is no going back to the life you knew. You

John W. Gray III

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#91. The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was the original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it.

John Gray

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#92. It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.

John P. Jumper

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#93. There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution

John Gray

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#94. We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

John Gray

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#95. What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

John Oliver Killens

John Gray Quotes #1081139
#96. Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world they had themselves made.

John N. Gray

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#97. The speckled sky is dim with snow,
The light flakes falter and fall slow;
Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,
Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in
By flickering curtains gray and thin.

John Townsend Trowbridge

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#98. Men go to their caves .. Women talk

John Gray

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#99. the suggestions, strategies, and

John Gray

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#100. Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he frequently found on the floor when he lived boyishly close to the carpet.

John Updike

John Gray Quotes #1155266

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