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Eva Gabor (6)
I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
233 other quotes about being alone
Galileo Galilei (7)
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
210 quotes regarding education
Mahatma Gandhi (100)
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
233 sayings about being alone
Indira Gandhi (5)
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
58 views regarding anger
Greta Garbo (4)
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
233 quotes about being alone
Jerry Garcia (4)
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
323 sayings relating to death
Stephen Gardiner (13)
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
62 quotes about architecture
William Lloyd Garrison (4)
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
323 other views regarding death
Marcus Garvey (7)
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
428 wisdom & wit about being good
Jose Ortega y Gasset (4)
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
323 thoughts relating to death
Carl Friedrich Gauss (3)
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
161 wisdom & wit about courage
Theophile Gautier (3)
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
218 more views regarding beauty
John Gay (2)
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
216 more quotes about hope
Marvin Gaye (4)
Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
278 more quotes relating to fear
Martha Gellhorn (2)
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
178 wisdom & wit about imagination
Jean Genet (5)
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
218 more quotes regarding beauty
Henry George (4)
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
233 wisdom & wit about being alone
A. Bartlett Giamatti (2)
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
210 quotes relating to education
Khalil Gibran (56)
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
425 more sayings about art
Andre Gide (22)
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
249 quotes regarding aging
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2)
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
345 thoughts about happiness
Allen Ginsberg (3)
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
174 quotes about experience
Jean Giraudoux (7)
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
323 other thoughts about death
Lillian Gish (2)
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
135 wisdom & wit regarding learning
William E. Gladstone (7)
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
278 thoughts regarding fear
Ellen Glasgow (4)
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
24 wisdom & wit relating to birthday
Jackie Gleason (2)
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
19 thoughts relating to diets
William Godwin (5)
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
210 views regarding education
Nikolai Gogol (2)
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
218 thoughts about beauty
Emma Goldman (10)
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
198 more wisdom & wit about business
Oliver Goldsmith (8)
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
179 more wisdom & wit about friendship
Barry Goldwater (9)
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
198 other quotes relating to business
Samuel Goldwyn (16)
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
175 sayings about change
Maxim Gorky (4)
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
166 sayings about the future
Martha Graham (5)
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
249 sayings about aging
Kenneth Grahame (2)
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
364 views regarding best
Antonio Gramsci (2)
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
139 quotes regarding intelligence
Ulysses S. Grant (6)
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
504 quotes about men
Robert Graves (4)
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
32 more quotes regarding finance
Graham Greene (11)
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
249 sayings about aging
Joyce Grenfell (2)
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
345 thoughts about happiness
Zane Grey (5)
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
12 thoughts regarding anniversary
Franz Grillparzer (6)
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
262 other sayings about knowledge
Lewis Grizzard (2)
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
233 views about being alone
Sacha Guitry (5)
The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
364 quotes about best
William Gurnall (4)
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
240 other views about faith