#here

But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#absolutely #alive #been #begin #being

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#boy #clear #doubting #had #i

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#depressed #disasters #everybody #find #gone

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems. ↗

— Matt Groening

#answer #cause #here #life #problems

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else. ↗

— John Grisham

#bad #death #death penalty #else #escape

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. ↗

— John Grisham

#beneath #big #big picture #book #card

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes. ↗

— John Guare

#city #financial #goes #i #jones

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#country #decide #i #i think #our

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#broken #crack #eyes #keep #may

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#any #convince #interesting #need #play