All Quotes

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
‐‐ Jim Leach

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
‐‐ Ernie Fletcher

A government of laws, and not of men.
‐‐ John Adams

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.
‐‐ Mark Foley

A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
‐‐ Laura Chinchilla

A government shutdown is inexcusable.
‐‐ Darlene Senger

A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

A government that doesn't work is in no one's interest.
‐‐ Gina Raimondo

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.
‐‐ James Q. Wilson

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo

A 'GQ' award is kind of, like, insane. It's a huge thing.
‐‐ Mark Ronson

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
‐‐ Pindar

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
‐‐ Louis Nizer

A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.
‐‐ Chen-Ning Yang

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
‐‐ Robert Orben

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
‐‐ Jose Marti

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.
‐‐ Dan Auerbach

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.
‐‐ Donella Meadows

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
‐‐ T. Berry Brazelton

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines.
‐‐ George Lois

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
‐‐ James E. Faust

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.
‐‐ Richard Carmona

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
‐‐ Lee Strasberg

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
‐‐ Ezra Pound

A great American city is fighting for its life.
‐‐ Marc Morial

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
‐‐ Alva Myrdal

A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
‐‐ Charles Dudley Warner

A great artist is a great man in a great child.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
‐‐ George Edward Moore

A great artist is never poor.
‐‐ Isak Dinesen

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
‐‐ Earl Nightingale

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
‐‐ Branch Rickey

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
‐‐ Louis Kahn

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
‐‐ Harry Browne

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
‐‐ Jack Falahee

A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
‐‐ Bob Gibson

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.
‐‐ Robert Stack

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
‐‐ Aristotle

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli