#end

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#everybody #forward #healthy #i #i think

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#end #let us #may #method #our

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#comes #end #final #genuine #loneliness

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#always #clear #common #death #ends

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#defend #freedom #future #god #i

My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#acts #even #husband #i #i can

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#ended #life #mom #sort #whole

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched

It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#better #costs #give #lend #same