#ding

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. ↗

— George Grosz

#beliefs #best #bitter #bitter end #brutality

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. ↗

— John Guare

#comedy #core #humiliation #tragedy

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#little #live #makes #marks #pulp

Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse. ↗

— Justin Guarini

#building #enough #first #floor #i

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#blueprints #ever #expect #get #guess

As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#california #door #eroding #gaming #i

The only thing holding us back is ourselves. ↗

— Brad Henry

#holding #only #ourselves #the only thing #thing

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#empire #evil #evil empire #exist #life

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#bike #city #depending #driven #exercising

I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#also #always #been #bike #good