George Gissing Quotes

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

George Gissing

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• I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Shows
  • Down
  • Favorite

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• Venus favors the bold.

  

  Ovid
  • Bold
  • Favors
  • Venus

• When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Successful
  • Look

• I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Think
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
  • Done
  • Interesting

• Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.

  

  Yuna
  • Heart
  • Care
  • Appreciate

• I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.

  

  Ramakrishna

• What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.

  

  Hal David
  • World
  • Sweet

• I was so lost back then,But with a little help from my friendsI found a light in the tunnel at the end.Now you're calling me up on the phone,So you can have a little whine and a moan.And it's only because you're feeling alone.

  

  Lily Allen
  • Up
  • Help
  • Feeling

• It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are determined to spend your time following your own interests, you pretty much have to do it on your own.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Time
  • Job
  • Pretty

• The biggest potential of Facebook is that people can build networks. For business persons, it means that they can build their list of leads, which they can look upon as prospects for furthering their business.

  

  Darren L Johnson
  • People
  • Business

• The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Time

• I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Space

• When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.

  

  Emma Roberts

• I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.

  

  Dave Heineman
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Discipline

• We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

  

  Willis Gaylord Clark
  • Reason
  • Poverty
  • Should

• I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!

  

  Harry Melling
  • Traveler

• One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Person
  • Truths
  • Essential

• Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friend
  • Fetters
  • Emancipator

• The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

  

  George Gissing
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Calm