Jean Gabin
Politeness is to dress knowledge of people in good manners.
Clark Gable
The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.
Personally I know nothing about sex because I have always been married .
John Kennet Galbraith
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
The measure of economic success is not our productivity, but what we do to render life more tolerable and pleasant.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
Galileo Galilei
Doubt is the father of invention.
Curiosity is the first step to solve any problem.
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
John Galsworthy
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
My life is my message.
Cowards can never be moral.
Patience means self-suffering.
Business without moral is a sin.
Love the sinner but hate the sin.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Hatred can be overcome only by love.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
We must become the change we want to see.
To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
An eye for eye will make he whole world blind.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent: conquer him with love.
The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not for everyone's greed.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics don't know what religion is.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership only by force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
Let everyone find out that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Judy Garland
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Roman Gary
For the next biblical flood God might use paper instead of water.
Ortega Y Gasset
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Civilization is simply the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
While a tiger will never cease to be a tiger, humans are in constant danger to dehumanise.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former makes great demands on himself, and the latter makes no demands on himself.
Bill Gates
Often you have to rely on intuition.
Experience is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Paul GauginI close my eyes so I can see.
Charles De Gaulle
Old age is a shipwreck.
Graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Nothing strengthens authority more than silence.
Glory comes only to those who have always dreamt of her.
Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last.
If a politician wants to become the master he ought to pose as the servant.
How can one govern a country with twohundred fortysix varieties of cheese?
I have come to believe that politics is too serious an undertaking to be left to politicians.
Since a politician never believes his own words, he is surprised when others believe them.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
There is a lot of egotism, pride, toughness and craftiness in every man of action. But all these will be seen as great virtues if he can achieve great results with them.
Bob Geldof
Music can't change the world.
Sulari Gentill
When things get stuck, change the scene.
Disappointment is the most caustic emotion.
Being in love is a bit like finding God. You start to act on blind faith.
George Gershwin
My voice is small but disagreeable.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.
Paul Gerwitz (Yale law professor)
Our various legal rules, taken together, may be producing a society in which liberty is bordering on disorder.
Masha Gessen
Comparison is how we know the world.
J.Paul Getty
The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
Nancy Gibbs
Leaders are tested only when people don’t want to follow.
A healthy democracy depends not just on armies but on arguments.
(Souvenirs are) ..the memory of the moments that make us who we are.
For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
Kahlil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Pity the nation devided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
André Gide
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Sure, flowers can’t feed us, but they are life’s real joy.
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
The most decisive actions of life are very often unconsidered actions.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to leave the shore.
Families, I can't stand! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness.
Stick to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
One does not discover new lands without being prepared to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
Ernest Giles (19th centurey explorer, Australia)
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
No one can possibly be a real human being who does not speak English.
Hermione Gingold
It would appear that I have tried everything except incest and folk dancing.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.
Jean Giraudoux
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Who wants to impose his will has to talk quietly.
Not discoveries, but naivety lets us navigate life securely.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It stands for the eternal rapture of life.
Ross Gittins
Humans are pattern-seeking animals.
Oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them.
Wars are usually won by the side with the most economic resources.
The thing about financial markets is they make judgments in haste and repent at leisure.
Our problem is not with the rising cost of living but with our efforts to keep up with the rising standard of living.
Economists and business people tend to focus mainly on economic efficiency; the public tends to focus on the fairness of it all.
We feel comfortable when we are doing what every one else is doing; we feel uncomfortable when we're running against the herd.
Edward Glaeser
Great cities are not static; they constantly change and take the world with them.
James Gleick
Times change, and Time is how we keep track.
Richard Glover
Social media is a support engine for the seven deadly sins. Lust. Gluttony. Anger. Envy. All of them verified, fortified and amplified.
Throw in Sloth, Avarice and Pride. Sites like Facebook and Instagram discover our weaknesses and then ... exploit them for corporate gain.
GOD (Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
I refuse to prove that I exist, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
GoDaddy (domain name register)
We are here to help our customers kick ass.
Jean-Luc Godard
Art attracts us exactly by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Hermann Göring
I decide who is a jew!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am here to wonder.
Patriotism spoils history.
Art translates the ineffable.
Man's best monument is man.
Mistakes make people likeable.
Age takes hold of us bu surprise.
Who is not curious learns nothing.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
One only hears what one understands.
Hate is an active ill, envy a passive one.
We are shaped and made by what we love.
It is contradiction which makes us creative.
Who wants to walk safely must walk slowly.
A master first reveals himself by his restraint.
Character is built on personality, not on talent.
He is truly happy who finds peace in his home.
To write stories is one way to get rid of the past.
Irony is that bit of salt which makes the meal eatable.
Who does nothing for others does nothing for himself.
(Wer nichts für andere tut, tut nichts für sich).
What a pitiful creature is man once bar all his vanities.
Nature is the only book with great content on each page
To study all the laws wouldn't leave any time to break them.
Life is for the living; and who lives must be prepared for change.
People don't understand how serious one has to be to be cheerful.
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the stream of the world.
Travel abroad - and become aware of all the good you have at home.
If you want an intelligent answer you must ask a reasonable question.
To seek and to make mistakes is good; because we learn through both.
Flowers are the beautiful language of nature telling us how much she loves us.
Nature doesn't joke. She is always right and mistakes and errors are made by humans.
Everything great and clever exists in the minority. Passion and emotions may become popular, but never reason. Forever, reason will be only with the few.
Curt Goetz
Allen ist das Denken erlaubt, doch Vielen bleibt es erspart.
Idealism is the ability to see people as they could be if they weren't what they are.
Vincent van Gogh
Some man may have a great fire in his soul - but no one comes to warm himself.
We must not judge God from just looking at this world. It's simply a sketch that didn't come off. Only a master could make such a blunder.
Steven Goldberg
Laughter is a noisy smile.
Megan Goldin
The scarcest resource in the world is time. ('The Escape Room')
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Gesture lightens our cognitive load. Making thinking easier.
Anna Goldsworthy
If we refuse to accept responsibility for the actions of our forebears, how can we claim ownership of a cultural heritage?
All culture emerged from the primal swamp of our barbarity. That is the human story, and it is the job of art to make sense of it. Ignoring it is not the same as transcending it.
Jane Goodall
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Roy Goodman
Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Mikhail Gorbachev
It's the idealists who move the world.
Scott Gordon
Power can only be controlled by power.
Al Gore
Without great dreams great deeds are never achieved.
Maxim Gorky
The madness of the brave is the wisdom of life.
The intelligentsia is not the brains of the country but the shit.
It makes more sense to help someone than to feel sorry for him.
Amanda Gorman
We've learned that quiet isn't always peace.
Dr.John Gottman
Every marriage is a mistake; the question is what you do with it.
Glenn Gould
We do not play the piano with our fingers but with our mind.
A.P.Gouthey
We are so busy making a living that we forget to make a life.
Francisco José de Goya
Fantasy, without reason, produces impossible monsters; but together with it, she is the mother of arts and the origin of marvels.
Balthasar Gracian
It is bad when your fame outruns your means.
Billy Graham
One with God is a majority.
Günther Grass
Decline begins with the victory
Errors recognised and admitted are the best basis for new insights.
There is no better teacher than lost illusions and disappointed hopes.
Robert Graves
Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity. (‘Claudius the God’)
Hanna Gray
Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think.
Thomas Gray
Ignorance is bliss.
David Grayson
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
Friedrich the Great
To make all people ashamed of fanaticism, that ought to be our aim.
Everyone can have knowledge, but the art to think is nature's rarest gift.
Books are not a small part of happiness. Literature, I think, will become my last great passion.
Celia Green
In an autocracy, one person has his way.
In an aristocracy, a few people have their way.
In a democracy, no one has his way.
Graham Greene
Beds always make me talk. ('Our Man in Havana')
You can't love and not trust. ('No Man's Land')
When we are unhappy we hurt.
Time gives poetry to a battlefield. ('Our Man in Havanna')
When we are not sure, we are alive.
Hate was just a failure of imagination. (‘The Power and the Glory’)
The inevitable is sometimes postponed. ('A Stranger's Hand')
Freedom comes only to the successful. ('Travels with my Aunt')
Man is made by the places in which he lives. (‘Brighton Rock’)
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
One's life is more formed by books than by human beings. ('Travels with my Aunt')
There is always another side to a joke, the side of the victim. ('Our Man in Havana')
When you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
Hope is an instinct only the reasoning human mind can kill. (‘The Power and the Glory’)
Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
('The Quiet American')
We do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created. (‘A Stranger’s Hand’)
Suffering is not increased by numbers: one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. (The Quiet American')
A man without memories might reach the age of a hundred and feel that his life had been a very brief one. ('Travels with my Aunt')
Susan Greenfield (neuroscientist and author)
The brain you go to bed with is not the same brain you woke up with this morning.
Greenpeace
You can't sink a rainbow.
Climate change isn't just a political ideology or scientific debate – it is a moral and ethical question
Germaine Greer
If God exists, I am against Him.
Nobody ages like anybody else.
A garden is the best alternative therapy.
We are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
No baby asks to be circumcised - or baptised for that matter.
The idea that the universe is an authoritarian construct I find repellent.
A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Wayne Gretzky
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you didn't take.
Franz Grillparzer
Sense and the ability to use it are two different gifts.
J.D.Griffin
Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.
Lauren Groff
The gods love to fuck with us.
Empty theatres are more silent than other empty places.
...the sum of her life... was far greater than its sum of love.
This peaceful sleep of being born male and rich and white and American ...
(all:'Fate and Furies')
Lev Grossman
Nothing gets old as fast as the future.
We are on the verge of the greatest age of creativity and innovation the world has ever known.
Dalia Grybauskaite
The taste of victory is the burden of responsibility.
G. Guareschi
A diplomat is a man who says openly what he doesn't think.
As soon as an optimist sees a light which doesn't exist, comes a pessimist to blow it out.
Sacha Guitry
I would love to have a honeymoon - but rather one by myself.
The trouble with paradise is: one usually gets there only in a hearse.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Ben Gurion
Who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
Antonio Guterres
Thew world has changed. Our institutions have not.
AntonioGuterres
We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.
Wherever there is a war, the highest price is paid by civilians.
Alan Guth
The universe is the ultimate free lunch.