#ra

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. ↗

— John Gunther

#golf #golf ball #green #like #travels

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. ↗

— John Gunther

#american politics #cannot #cut #generalizations #politics

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.] ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#fortitude #glory #man #strength #faith

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#built #come #country #everywhere #faith

There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#eleven #expect #here #i #i can

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. ↗

— Philip Guston

#i #kind #like #miracle #need

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices. ↗

— David Guterson

#amount #certain #condemned #confines #freedom

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars. ↗

— David Guterson

#after #book #case #certainly #comes

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good. ↗

— Savannah Guthrie

#good #grades #high #high school #i

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. ↗

— Thomas Guthrie

#gives #grace #luster #nature #rough