Gabor, Zsa Zsa : Macho does not prove mucho.
Galbraith, John Kenneth : Washington D.C. is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
Gallienne, Eva Le : Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Galsworthy, John : One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.
Galsworthy, John : The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
Gamow, George : It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!
Gamow, George : It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!
Gandhi, Mahatma : As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
Gandhi, Mahatma : Parties on either side who follow the rule of an �eye for an eye� soon find themselves totally blind.
Gandhi, Mahatma : If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children.
Gandhi, Mahatma : Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Gandhi, Mahatma : If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Gandhi, Indira : I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles. But today it means getting along with people.
Gandhi, Mahatma : First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you . . . and you win.
Gandhi, Mahatma : In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Gandhi, Mahatma : It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.
Gandhi, Mahatma : Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
Gandhi, Mahatma : The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Gandhi, Mahatma : An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Gandhi, Mahatma : If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
Gandhi, Mahatma : I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent.
Gandhi, Mahatma : Parties on either side who follow the rule of an 'eye for an eye' soon find themselves totally blind.
Gandhi, Mahatma : There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Gandhi, Mahatma : It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Gandhi, Mahatma : Earth has enough for every man's need, but not for every man's greed.
Gandhi, Mahatma : If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children.
Gandhi, Mahatma : Until people have loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened.
Gandhi, Mahatma : I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian.
Gandhi, Mahatma : The moral progress of a nation can be judged by the way it treats its animals.
Gandhi, Mahatma : Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence are wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; commerce without morality; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice; and politics without principle.
Gandhi, Mahatma : A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Gandhi, Mahatma : An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Gandhi, Mahatma : Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
Gandhi, Mahatma : An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Ganz, Marshall : No longer can inequality in economic resources balance equality in political resources.
Ganz, Marshall : Democracy is a system of constructive contention.
Ganz, Marshall : No longer can inequality in economic resources balance equality in political resources.
Gardiner, Marguerite : There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Gardner, John : Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Gardner, John : Sometimes our institutions [the schools] are like sand dunes in the desert-shaped more by influences than purposes.
Gardner, John : Sometimes our institutions, the schools, are like sand dunes in the desert�shaped more by influences than purposes.
Gardner, John W. : Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Gardner, John : Sometimes our institutions (the schools) are like sand dunes in the desert-shaped more by influences than purposes.
Gardner, Herbert : Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Garfield, James A. : A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
Garfield, James A. : Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
Garrison, William Lloyd : I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
Gascoigne, Caroline L. : An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Gass, William H. : The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
Gates, Kevin : I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.
Gates, Melinda : Goals are only wishes unless you have a plan.
Gaulle, Charles De : Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first. Nationalism is when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Gautier, Theophile : To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Gawain, Shakti : Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own; it is simply a lack of light. In order to cause a shadow— or evil—to disappear, you must shine light on it.
Gawain, Shakti : Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own; it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, by stamping on it. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
Gay, John : There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
Gay, John : There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
Gay, John : Shadow owes its birth to light.
Geiger, H. Jack : Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of color, the most corrosive is the wound within, the internalized racism that leads some victims . . . to embrace the values of their oppressors.
Geisel, Theodor Seuss : Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Geisel, Theodor Seuss : How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn.
Geisel, Theodor Seuss : Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Geisel, Theodor Seuss : Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Gellert, Christian Furchtegott : Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
George, Henry : Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
George, David Lloyd : Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
George, David Lloyd : Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
George, David Lloyd : Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
George, Henry : Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
George, Henry : That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
Gharibian, Murad : We live in a world in which we have more diatribe and less dialogue.
Giacomini, Lynwood L. : Poverty - one thing money can't buy.
Gibbon, Edward : I was never less alone than when by myself.,
Gibbon, Edward : I was never less alone than when by myself.
Gibbs, William : The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
Gibran, Kahlil : The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Gibran, Kahlil : A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Gibran, Kahlil : Progress lies not in what is enhancing, but in advancing of what will be.
Gibran, Kahlil : It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Gibran, Kahlil : Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
Gibran, Kahlil : He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.
Gibran, Kahlil : Love is trembling happiness.
Gibran, Kahlil : Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Gibran, Kahlil : Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
Gibran, Kahlil : Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Gibran, Kahlil : Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Gibran, Kahlil : A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Gibran, Kahlil : We wanderers begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
Gibran, Kahlil : If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Gibran, Kahlil : The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Gibran, Kahlil : Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Gibran, Kahlil : The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Gibran, Kahlil : There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Gibran, Kahlil : Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Gibran, Kahlil : Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Gibran, Kahlil : Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Gibran, Kahlil : If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Gibran, Kahlil : The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Gibran, Kahlil : Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Gibran, Kahlil : Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes
Gibran, Kahlil : All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Gibran, Kahlil : Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Gibran, Kahlil : Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
Gibran, Kahlil : I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Gibran, Kahlil : Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Gibran, Kahlil : Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Gibran, Kahlil : Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Gide, Andre : It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Gide, Andre : One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Gide, Andre : One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the home shorefor a very long time.
Gide, Andre : Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
Gide, Andre : One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the home shore.
Gide, Andre : Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
Gide, Andre : I had rather be hated for what I am than be loved for what I am not.
Gilbert, W.S. : My object is . . . To let the punishment fit the crime.
Gingrich, Newt : Great progress flows from once laughable ideas - such as moon colonization.
Giovanni, Nikki : Reading print is one form of literacy, but there are many types of literacy. Some indigenous groups such as native Americans can read the clouds, or Pacific Islanders are said to be able to read the waves and swells of the ocean.
Girardin, Madame De : Instinct is the nose of the mind.
Glasow, Arnold H. : Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Glasow, Arnold H. : The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Glasow, Arnold H. : All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
Glasow, Arnold H. : The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it
Glasow, Arnold H. : Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Glasow, Arnold H. : Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.
Glasow, Arnold H. : Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Glasow, Arnold H. : A true friend never gets In your way unless you happen to be going down.
Glasow, Arnold H. : It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Glasow, Arnold H. : A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Glasow, Arnold H. : Improvement begins with I.
Glasow, Arnold H. : Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
Glasow, Arnold H. : Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.
Glasow, Arnold H. : An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Glasow, Arnold H. : It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Glasow, Arnold H. : Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Glasow, Arnold H. : Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Glasow, Arnold H. : The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Glasow, Arnold H. : Improvement begins with I.
Glasow, Arnold H. : A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Glasow, Arnold H. : One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Glasow, Arnold H. : A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
Glasow, Arnold H. : Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.
Godard, Jean-luc : A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
Godin, Andre : The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.
Godwin, Gail : Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Goethe, Johann Von : Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Goethe, Johann Von : As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Goethe, Johann Von : The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Goethe, Johann Von : The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Goethe, Johann Von : Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Goethe, Johann Von : Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Gogh, Vincent Van : The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Gogh, Vincent Van : Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
Gogol, Nikolai : Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
Goldberg, Arthur : If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Golden, Kc : Waiting for consensus about how fast the earth is warming before acting is like being on a plane falling from the sky and bickering about the rate of descent.
Golding, William : There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. (Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, French author of memoirs and aphorisms, 1613-1680Patriotism: The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for. (Laurence J. Peter, Canadian educator and author, as well as the creator of the Peter Principle, 1919-1990Kindness: Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer, 1709-1784Art: Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
Golding, William : Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
Golding, William : Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
Goldman, Emma : If the U.S. entered the war WWI to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America.
Goldman, Emma : If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America.
Goldoni, Carlo : He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
Goldsmith, Oliver : Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Goldsmith, Sir James : Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Gordon, Barbara : I just want to make sure my life doesn't end with a whine.
Goring, Hermann : The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Goring, Hermann : The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Gould, Stephen Jay : The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Gould, Stephen Jay : The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Gourmont, Rimy De : Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Gourmont, Remy De : It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.
Gracian, Baltasar : The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.
Gracian, Baltasar : When you counsel someone, you should . . . be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
Gracian, Baltasar : Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Gracian, Baltasar : There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Graeber, David : Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.
Graeber, David : Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.
Graham, Ruth : Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Gray, Farrah : Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
Grayson, David : We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.
Great, Catherine The : Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.
Green, Benny : A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Gregory, Dick : I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Grenfell, Wilfred : The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth.
Guevara, Ernesto Che : At the risk of sounding ridiculous, the true revolutionary is moved by feelings of love.
Guicciardini, Francesco : Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
Guinan, Texas : A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Gutmann, Amy : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy.
Gutmann, Amy : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy.
Gutmann, Amy : Principles should be guideposts, not roadblocks.
Gyatso, Tenzin : The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
Gyatso, Tenzin : In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Gyatso, Tenzin : Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Gyatso, Tenzin : Everyone is broken by life, but afterward many are strong in the broken places. (Ernest Hemingway,U.S. author and journalist, 1899-1961Equality: The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
Gyatso, Tenzin : There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience, and recent scientific findings.
Gyatso, Tenzin : In taming our inner dragons, the energy of old and, often, unconscious habits and personal complexes may too frequently overpower our fragile intentions.
Gyllenhaal, Jake : Freedom is on the other side of discipline.
Gyllenhaal, Jake : I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th U.S. President, 1809-1865Justice: I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th US President, 1809-1865Discipline: Freedom is on the other side of discipline.
