Quotations Index - G

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QUOTATIONS INDEX

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Neil Gaiman

"There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right."
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John Kenneth Galbraith

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

* "One must always have in mind one simple fact -- there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor."

"The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process. However, a more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility."
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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

* "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
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Mahatma Gandhi

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

* "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
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James A. Garfield

* "Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."

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Roman Gary

"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him."

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Stanley C. Gault

"You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others."

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John Gay

"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."

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Jean Genet

"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."

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Chief Dan George

May the stars carry your sadness away.
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty.
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
and above all, may silence make you strong.
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Jean Paul Getty

* "My father said: 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.'"

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Kahlil Gibran

"Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you."

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Andre Gide

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less

 the artist does the better."

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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

* "In the discovery of secret things, and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators."

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William Ewart Gladstone

* "Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."

"The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world."

"To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right."

* "You should avoid needless and entangling engagements. You may boast about them, you may brag about them, you may say you are procuring consideration of the country. You may say that an Englishman may now hold up his head among the nations. But what does all this come to, gentlemen? It comes to this, that you are increasing your engagements without increasing your strength; and if you increase your engagements without increasing strength, you diminish strength, you abolish strength; you really reduce the empire and do not increase it. You render it less capable of performing its duties; you render it an inheritance less precious to hand on to future generations."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

* "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."

* "Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."

"Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order."

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."

"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him."

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Arthur Joseph Goldberg

"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be

 at the dock." [ascribed]

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Craig Good

"It is not an ad hominem attack to see if the source of the information we’re considering has credibility or expertise in the field. Anybody could be right or wrong about anything, but the odds are better with a credible, experienced expert."

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Paul Goodman

* "Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

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Billy Graham

* "Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing."

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R.H. Grenville

"In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up."

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François Guizot

* "You may raise the pile of calumny as high as you like; it will never reach the height of my disdain."

"The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty."

"Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head."

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