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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
– Graham Greene
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
– Graham Greene
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
– Dick Gregory
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To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
– Alex Grey
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I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
– John Grisham
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
– Walter Gropius
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I think that the temptation to feel that your entire life has been wasted must be very great for a lot of Cubans.
– Alma Guillermoprieto
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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I was taught by my father, who could not read, that reading is the basis of all education. I learned this painful lesson as I watched him suffer through those simple tasks that all of us who can read take for granted. His inability to read affected every aspect of his life, and mine.
– Kenny Guinn
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It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
– James Gunn
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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
– Woody Guthrie
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Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
– Buddy Guy
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Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
– Dan Gable
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Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won't get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it's still there.
– Dan Gable
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I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
– Mavis Gallant
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She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.
– Mavis Gallant
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Life is an endless process of self-discovery.
– James Gardner
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Must I tell the story of my life again?
– John Garfield
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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
– Hamlin Garland
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Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
– Greer Garson
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I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
– Jennie Garth
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I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
– Gareth Gates
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I sing about life.
– Marvin Gaye
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Many of the quests for status symbols-the hot automobile, the best table in a restaurant or a private chat with the boss-are shadowy reprises of infant anxieties. The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
– Willard Gaylin
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A crossing of a Rubicon in life history.
– Paul H. Gebhard
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Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
– Larry Gelbart
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Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
– Sarah Michelle Gellar
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The way I look at life - we're all on the Hindenberg, so there's no use in arguing over the window seat.
– Richard Geni
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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
– David Gerrold
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Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
– David Gerrold
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I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.
– Jim Gibbons
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Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend, but in this case a country.
– Jim Gibbons
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Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
– L. Wolfe Gilbert
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I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
– Virginia Gildersleeve
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Andrea Chenier plays like an operatic historical novel of the French Revolution. It is not an attempt at a biography of the real Chenier, but a dramatic fantasy based on his life and poems, with a libretto by Puccini's frequent collaborator Luigi Illica.
– Umberto Giordano
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Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?
– Todd Gitlin
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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
– Charles J. Givens
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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
– Arnold H. Glasgow
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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
– Arnold H. Glasow
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The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.
– Grace Glueck
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Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
– Bob Goddard
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It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.
– Natalie Goldberg
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
– Natalie Goldberg
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
– William Goldman
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
– William Goldman
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Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.
– Barbara Goldsmith
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On the road to life there are many paths... some twist, some turn, some dip, some curve. As long as you keep your focus, your destination is obtainable.
– Brenda Good
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In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life and his goals. He is a giver, not a getter, and a product of two amazing parents.
– Wally Goodwin
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The life is a wonderful thing. You have to appreciate it NOW... because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow.
– Ekaterina Gordeeva
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Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone, iindness in another's trouble, courage in your own.
– Adam Lindsay Gordon
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
– Patrick Gordon
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A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
– Bill Gothard
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Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships.
– John Gottman
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I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.
– Topher Grace
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I don't talk about my personal life with the press.
– Topher Grace
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I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great.
– Heather Graham
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I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.
– Lauren Graham
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When I began to write Poldark I drew on this part of my life as in another dimension.
– Winston Graham
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Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
– Gunther Grass
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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
– Gunther Grass
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I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that I've ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II-the other one stunk.
– Sammy Gravano
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The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
– Hanna Holborn Gray
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There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige.
– Hanna Holborn Gray
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Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
– Francine Du Plessix Gray
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
– David Grayson
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Trio life has the wonderful advantage of not being alone, the pleasure of having success with two other people and the solace when you don't have success.
– Bernard Greenhouse
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And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.
– Julian Grenfell
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If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.
– Joyce Grenfell
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A writer should be joyous, an optimist... Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
– George Gribbin
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Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
– Susan Griffin
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
– Nanci Griffith
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God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
– Bede Griffiths
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I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
– Bede Griffiths
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I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.
– Bede Griffiths
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The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put rum or bourbon in it.
– Lewis Grizzard
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For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
– Stanislav Grof
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Rarely does anyone speak of fear for his own life, as if an unspoken etiquette prevails.
– Jane Gross
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Can you imagine the Founding Fathers saying that the major source of authority in your life can make you drop your pants and urinate as a condition of getting or keeping a job?
– Gene Guerrero
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There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.
– Bryant Gumbel
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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.
– Adrienne E. Gusoff
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Genet was an actor in the play of his life, putting on masks, rearranging facts to suit his purpose and clouding himself in mystique.
– Mel Gussow
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I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.
– Jake Gyllenhaal
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If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.
– Jake Gyllenhaal
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Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
– Alexander Haig
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The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
– Alexander Haig
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Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
– George Halas
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There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.
– Deidre Hall
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The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
– Scott Hamilton
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Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.
– Linda Hamilton
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I don't know Who - or what - put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone - or Something - and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
– Christopher Hampton
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And if I don't express that, then what's my life worth?
– Herbie Hancock
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Buddhism opened me up to seeing things from the standpoint of being a human being - looking at the purpose of action and the effects on life.
– Herbie Hancock
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I took a different view of what it was I had been doing before and started to come to some realizations about the way I looked at life.
– Herbie Hancock
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