#old

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#apartment #ask #attractive #because #buildings

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#books #i #old #only #over

After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#america #believed #celebrated #cold #cold war

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#decided #dropped #got #ground #hit

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#i #modern #mold #now #really

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#allowing #comedy #folk #freedom #glorious

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#culture #guns #hands #holding #holding hands

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#believe #better #earth #else #lie

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

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#grow #heart #must #never #old