Quotes with 4-and-a-half

Quotes 5821 till 5840 of 25323.

  • Carl Friedrich Gauss Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
    Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
    - +
     0
  • Alan Dundes Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
    - +
     0
  • Alvin Toffler Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Brad Holland Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
    Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • William Hazlitt Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin Games lubricate the body and the mind.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • John Gay Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
    - +
     0
  • Kofi Annan Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Robert Herrick Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
    - +
     0
  • Boy George Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
    The London Evening Standard, 20 February 2006:
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Judith Guest Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Golden Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bob Graham Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ban Ki-moon Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • Kofi Annan Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • William Bolitho General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
    - +
     0
  • John Stuart Mill General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
    A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
    - +
     0
  • Ronald Reagan General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
    Speech Berlin, 12 June 1997
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • Bertolt Brecht General, man is very useful.
    He can fly and he can kill.
    But he has one defect:
    He can think.
    Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
    - +
     0
All 4-and-a-half famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 292)