#thou

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#bodies #children #control #crawl #few

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#also #believe #broken #care #complicated

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography! ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#anything #biography #even #having #his

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. ↗

— Graham Greene

#alive #character #comes #does #hadn

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#allowing #any #based #been #being

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree! ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#agree #also #debate #discussion #fit

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#leave #love #rose #stem #thou

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#disagree #disagreeable #may #some #some things

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#begin #i #mine #never #poem