#stand

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day. ↗

— Edward Grey

#arrangements #better #cannot #changing #circumstances

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong. ↗

— John Grierson

#conflicting #happens #important #more #often

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#because #being #getting #great #i

I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#different #does #frustrating #held #honest

Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#amount #area #automobiles #destroying #efforts

America stands for the land of opportunity. ↗

— Michael Grimm

#land #opportunity #stands

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. ↗

— John Grisham

#beneath #big #big picture #book #card

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#bit #change #different #just #language

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#central #certainty #concerned #culture #death

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#activity #biological #challenges #conscious #death