#wards

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#bear #beings #cent #constantly #down

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#afterwards #america #bring #congress #ever

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#intimacy #life #person #private #private life

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#awards #battle #between #big #doomed

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#deed #enough #entirely #goal #keep

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#leading #road #towards #unknown

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#army #bit #career #drawn #father

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm. ↗

— Kevin Garnett

#direction #done #head #i #i think

In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork. ↗

— Ina Garten

#body #comforting #fresh #go #light