George Gissing Quotes

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

George Gissing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 22, 1857 - December 28, 1903

Topics

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I'm allowed to have my opinions as an American, but it seems the Left becomes very intolerant when you have an opinion other than what they state.

Joe Wurzelbacher

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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

John Dalberg-Acton

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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

Anita Roddick

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I'm not going to be lectured to.

Ann Coulter

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You have to have a life. And life has to go on when your voice shuts down on you and you have to take a break from what you're doing for a career.

Steve Kazee

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If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Molly Ivins

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I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.

Cory Monteith

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My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

Clive Cussler

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I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

Brian Dietzen

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If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Ciaran Hinds

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I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.

Anne Reid

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I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.'

Timbaland

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