George Gissing Quotes
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
Quotes to Explore
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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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.
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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.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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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.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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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.
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We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.
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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.
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Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.
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Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.
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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.
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When I was a little kid, I don't remember looking up and seeing so many Hispanic athletes out there.
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If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.
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If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
