#rely

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#bottom #different #different view #entirely #frog

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#barry #because #flamboyant #gets #interviews

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#guilt #i #life #pleasant #rarely

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. ↗

— Andre Gide

#get #go #him #his #idea

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe. ↗

— Danny Glover

#choices #compromising #feel #i #i believe

Age merely shows what children we remain. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #merely #remain #shows

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#gives #half #life #man #posterity

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#being #confronted #desires #emancipation #external

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#best way #enemy #field #head #homes