#off

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own. ↗

— John Gray

#his #know #man #offer #own

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#ability #against #alone #bathtub #century

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#beautiful #catch #did #fish #fog

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff! ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#asked #asking #borrowed #break #city

Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#environment #even #fancy #film #i

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#called #chief #chief executive #executive #fortune

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#allowed #children #defenders #family #germans

I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#became #berkeley #came #cheer #clown

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him. ↗

— John Gray

#critical #generally #help #him #how

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever