George Gissing Quotes
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
Quotes to Explore
-
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
-
I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
-
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
-
Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
-
Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
-
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
-
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
-
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
-
I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
-
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
-
The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
-
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
-
A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
-
We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.
-
I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
-
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.
-
Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.
-
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
-
I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire, this would be Afghanistan.
-
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
-
Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.
-
As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.
-
Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.
-
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
