#rue

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#life #literature #looking #looks #loudly

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#disabled #how #measure #society #treats

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it. ↗

— Judith Guest

#back #day #days #every #every day

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass. ↗

— James Gunn

#encompass #human #human life #ideas #life

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. ↗

— Homer

#counterfeit #friends #less #moved #than

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true? ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#just #me #over #someone #states

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#am #any #cruelty #dominance #i

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#collapse #could #event #explosion #first

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#convinced #everybody #fact #little #opposite

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#freight #guthrie #i #i was raised #like