#greene

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#everybody #grass #greener #thinks

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. ↗

— Rachel Field

#fortune #good #good fortune #greener #happiness

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#fast #figure #greene #grew #guys

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive. ↗

— Mary Whitehouse

#anyone #anything #country #gave #greene

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener. ↗

— Billy Martin

#cigars #everything #greener #looks #nicer

The grass isn't always greener on the other side! ↗

— Ricky Gervais

#grass #greener #other #side

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#book #brighton #chasing #create #decided

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change. ↗

— Graham Greene

#greeneland #life #mutability #change

You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears. ↗

— Graham Greene

#faith

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy. ↗

— Graham Greene

#books #doctor-fischer-of-geneva #graham-greene #love #love