#be

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#anything #being #church #else #go

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#experience #more #work

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#because #comedy #game #i #me

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#automobile #being #differs #equally #important

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#being #daughter #english #father #felt

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#difficult #down #feel #more #next

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#better #better thing #far #firm #nonsense

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#between #busy #changing #choice #everyone

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#art #between #choosing #disastrous