| Author | Quote |
Topic |
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| Gabor, Eva | "Love is a game that two can play and both win. " | Love |
| Gabor, Dennis | "Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. " | Poetry |
| Gabor, Dennis | "The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. " | Technology |
| Galbraith, John Kenneth | "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. " | Government |
| Galilei, Galileo | "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. " | Religion |
| Galilei, Galileo | "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. " | Nature |
| Gall, John | "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. " | Technology |
| Gandhi, Mohandas | "There is more to life than increasing its speed. " | Society |
| Gandhi, Mohandas | "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. " | Peace |
| Gandhi, Mohandas | "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. " | Religion |
| Gandhi, Mohandas | "Where there is love there is life. " | Love |
| Gardner, John W. | "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. " | Society |
| 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. " | Education |
| Gardner, John W. | "It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. " | Government |
| Gardner, John W. | "History never looks like history when you are living through it. " | History |
| Garland, Judy | "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. " | Love |
| Garland, Hamlin | "My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes] has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. " | Nature |
| Garland, Hamlin | "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. " | Nature |
| Garland, Hamlin | "I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. " | Nature |
| Garn, Stanley | "If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. " | Intelligence |
| Gasset, Jose Ortega y | "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. " | Love |
| Gasset, Jose Ortega y | "Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. " | Life |
| Gates, Bill | "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. " | Technology |
| Gates, Bill | "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. " | Success |
| Gates, Bill | "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. " | Religion |
| Gauguin, Paul | "The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. " | Art |
| Gauguin, Paul | "Art is either plagiarism or revolution. " | Art |
| Gauguin, Paul | "There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. " | Art |
| Gauguin, Paul | "In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. " | Art |
| Gauguin, Paul | "It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. " | Imagination |
| Gaulle, Charles De | "I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. " | History |
| Gaulle, Charles De | "How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? " | History |
| Gaulle, Charles De | "My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. " | History |
| Geisel, Theodor | "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. " | Imagination |
| Geisel, Theodor | "My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!" | Imagination |
| Geisel, Theodor | "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! " | Imagination |
| Gelman, Eric | "Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species that roams corporate waters will prove just as hardy. " | Nature |
| Geneen, Harold S. | "In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. " | Business |
| Gentry, Dave Tyson | "True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. " | Friendship |
| Gerard, Rosemonde | "For you see, each day I love you more - today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. " | Love |
| Gerard, Dr. Ralph | "Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. " | Imagination |
| Gerrold, David | "Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. " | Nature |
| Gershenfeld, Neil | "For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. " | Technology |
| Gerstner, Louis | "Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. " | Computer |
| Getty, J. Paul | "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. " | Business |
| Getty, J. Paul | "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. " | Business |
| Getty, J. Paul | "The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. " | Business |
| Getty, J. Paul | "Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil. " | Success |
| Getty, J. Paul | "I buy when other people are selling. " | Business |
| Gettysburg, Gen George Pickett | "Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. " | War |
| Gibbon, Edward | "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. " | Business |
| Gibbon, Edward | "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. " | History |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. " | Business |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. " | Faith |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. " | Love |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. " | Poetry |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. " | Poetry |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. " | Faith |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. " | Religion |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. " | Art |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. " | Religion |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. " | Nature |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. " | Dream |
| Gibran, Kahlil | "Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife." | Religion |
| Gibson, William | "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... " | Technology |
| Gibson, William | "It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. " | Technology |
| Gibson, William | "The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. " | Technology |
| Gide, Andre | "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. " | Experience |
| Gide, Andre | "It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. " | Peace |
| Gide, Andre | "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. " | Art |
| Gide, Andre | "Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. " | Art |
| Gill, Brendan | "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. " | Life |
| Gilman, Dorothy | "People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. " | Dream |
| Gingrich, Newt | "It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us. " | Science |
| Girard, Stephan | "If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. " | Nature |
| Giraudoux, Jean | "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. " | Nature |
| Gissing, George | "For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. " | Nature |
| Gladstone, William Ewart | "Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. " | Government |
| Glasow, Arnold H. | "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. " | Success |
| Glasow, Arnold H. | "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. " | Friendship |
| Glasow, Arnold H. | "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. " | Success |
| Glasow, Arnold H. | "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. " | Science |
| Glasow, Arnold H. | "What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. " | Technology |
| Glasow, Arnold H. | "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. " | Business |
| Glasow, Arnold H. | "One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. " | Business |
| Glickman, Louis J. | "The best investment on earth is earth. " | Business |
| Gluckman, Max | "A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. " | Science |
| Glueck, Grace | "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. " | Art |
| Godard, Jean-Luc | "I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie. " | Movie |
| Godard, Jean-Luc | "I like a film to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. " | Movie |
| Godard, Jean-Luc | "A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. " | Movie |
| Godard, Jean-Luc | "Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. " | Movie |
| Godwin, Gail | "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. " | Education |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. " | Society |
| Goethe, Johann | "To rule is easy, to govern difficult. " | Government |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | "Love does not dominate; it cultivates. " | Love |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | "One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. " | Nature |
| Gogh, Vincent Van | "If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. " | Art |
| Gogh, Vincent Van | "When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. " | Nature |
| Goldfuss, J. H. | "There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. " | Computer |
| Goldman, Emma | "No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. " | Education |
| Goldwater, Barry M. | "A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. " | Government |
| Goldwater, Barry M. | "Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. " | History |
| Goldwyn, Samuel | "A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. " | Movie |
| Goldwyn, Samuel | "Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. " | Movie |
| Goncourt, Edmond de | "A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. " | Art |
| Goodwin, Richard | "People come to Washington believing it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine. " | Government |
| Gordon, Julins | "Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. " | Love |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | "In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. " | Science |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | "Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. " | Science |
| Gracian, Baltasar | "Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. " | Dream |
| Graham, Stephen | "As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. " | Nature |
| Grant, Ulysses S. | "I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. " | War |
| Grant, Cary | "My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. " | Life |
| Graves, Robert | "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. " | Poetry |
| Gray, Thomas | "Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. " | Poetry |
| Grayson, David | "Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. " | Love |
| Great, Frederick the | "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. " | Religion |
| Green, Russell | "The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. " | Education |
| Green, Benny | "A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. " | Music |
| Greenberg, Daniel S. | "Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. " | Love |
| Greenberg, Daniel S. | "The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market. " | Science |
| Greene, Graham | "Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. " | Technology |
| Greenleaf Whittier, John | "As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. " | Business |
| Greenleaf Whittier, John | "Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope. " | Business |
| Gregg, Alan | "The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. " | Society |
| Gregory, Dick | "We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. " | History |
| Gregory, Sir Richard Arman | "Science is... one of the great human endeavors to be ranked with arts and religion as the guide and expression of man's fearless quest for truth. " | Science |
| Grosser, Arthur E. | "When we decode a cookbook, every one of us is a practicing chemist. Cooking is really the oldest, most basic application of physical and chemical forces to natural materials. " | Science |
| Grove, Andy | "Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. " | Technology |
| Grove, Andy | "Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. " | Technology |
| Grove, Andy | "Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. " | Technology |
| Guicciardini, Francesco | "Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. " | Friendship |
| Guin, Ursula K. Le | "I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. " | Imagination |
| Gulledge, D. Dale | "I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. " | Religion |
| Gustav Jung, Carl | "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. " | Dream |
| Gyatso, Tenzin | "I believe that at every level of society - familial, tribal, national and international - the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities. " | Religion |
