If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.


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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
GRAHAM GREENE
If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.
GRAHAM DAY
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bri...
GRAHAM GREENE
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that ...
GORDON GRAHAM
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE
We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be...
GRAHAM GREENE
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
MARTHA GRAHAM
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the s...
MARTHA GRAHAM
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let...
MARTHA GRAHAM
Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.
BRIAN GRAHAM
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they...
BILLY GRAHAM
Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the other...
GRAHAM GREENE
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or...
GRAHAM GREENE
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rut...
GRAHAM SWIFT
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM
The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.
COLLIER GRAHAM
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
GRAHAM GREENE
There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.
GRAHAM GREEN
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint ...
GRAHAM GREENE
Good people are always so sure they're right.
BARBARA GRAHAM
The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
MARTHA GRAHAM
The body is a sacred garment.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that m...
KATHARINE GRAHAM
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
KATHARINE GRAHAM
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our chil...
BILLY GRAHAM
The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our m...
LINDSEY GRAHAM
I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That...
KAT GRAHAM
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do ...
GRAHAM SWIFT
I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for i...
KAT GRAHAM
I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN
You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.
GRAHAM KENNEDY
It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN
The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor...
BILLY GRAHAM
Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it ...
GRAHAM MOORE
Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small...
GRAHAM MOORE
I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of frie...
GRAHAM MOORE
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little...
BILLY GRAHAM
Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get do...
BILLY GRAHAM
'Mom' isn't an adjective or a personality; they're not all the same.
LAUREN GRAHAM