All Quotes

The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
‐‐ Victor Davis Hanson

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.
‐‐ Hans Zimmer

'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'
‐‐ Andy Kindler

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.
‐‐ Jennifer Nettles

The Grammy snuck up on me. I was on tour. It just hit me. I skipped down the street in Vienna. I kept saying, 'I won. I won.'
‐‐ Estelle

The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.
‐‐ Tommy Chong

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
‐‐ Stanley Crouch

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.
‐‐ Jim Garrison

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.
‐‐ Donella Meadows

The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day.
‐‐ Alison Krauss

The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.
‐‐ Amity Shlaes

The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
‐‐ Sam Kean

The grand scale and immersive nature of The IMAX Experience gives 'Spiderwick' a brand new level of excitement. In IMAX theatres, fans will be drawn into the movie even further and feel as if they are actually part of the story.
‐‐ Mark Canton

The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
‐‐ Christian Nestell Bovee

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
‐‐ Olympia Brown

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
‐‐ Chen Shui-bian

The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
‐‐ Ruben Blades

The Granite State needs a senator who knows that New Hampshire comes first - and leads like it.
‐‐ Maggie Hassan

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.
‐‐ Toyin Odutola

The grass is a very big challenge for me. There are these low bounces and different movements, which is very difficult, especially for my height and weight. When the surfaces change, and I start to play on grass, I start to feel it in the lower back and the lower hamstring.
‐‐ Tomas Berdych

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.
‐‐ Jeff Rich

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.
‐‐ Shilpa Shetty

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!
‐‐ Ricky Gervais

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
‐‐ Ken Kesey

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.
‐‐ Bob Weir

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
‐‐ Bill Walton

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
‐‐ Jon Fishman

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.
‐‐ Mickey Hart

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
‐‐ James Dean

The gratification of desire is not happiness.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.
‐‐ Evelyn Lauder

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
‐‐ Robert Blair

The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.
‐‐ Rosie O'Donnell