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Albert G. Greene

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BRIAN GREENE No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
BRIAN GREENE The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i...
BRIAN GREENE Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus...
BRIAN GREENE Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t...
BRIAN GREENE How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab...
BRIAN GREENE Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na...
BRIAN GREENE I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
BRIAN GREENE We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ...
BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...
GRAHAM GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they...
GRAHAM GREENE I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a brib...
GRAHAM GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE We want to bring to the attention of the government that the people are not very happy with the tax ...
ALAN GREENE This does turn the convoy into a bit of a farce,
ALAN GREENE People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...
GRAHAM GREENE Skinny jeans are usually my go to jean. I do bootleg every once in a while, boyfriend jeans I feel l...
ASHLEY GREENE I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' not...
ASHLEY GREENE People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it need...
GRAHAM GREENE Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unfor...
GRAHAM GREENE I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God bogg...
GRAHAM GREENE I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone yo...
ASHLEY GREENE It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE The chronic pain market will likely undergo a major sea change over the next few years and there are...
ADAM GREENE We want to get people excited about VCP. And we want to encourage researchers to focus on things imp...
ADAM GREENE We want to get people excited [about VCP]. And we want to encourage researchers to focus on things i...
ADAM GREENE This slowdown is expected because they are exhausting their cost-savings from the merger. But their ...
ADAM GREENE With AHP we'll be looking at everything, just like Pfizer.
ADAM GREENE I'm very pleased. My boys worked hard, and even though they got down 1-0 early, they worked very har...
ADAM GREENE I don't think we'll see too many surprises on the downside, as we're really in bargain basement terr...
ADAM GREENE I think a lot of companies have already put expectations so low they haven't set them up for those m...
ADAM GREENE It's actually been really great. The kids are fun to work with and the kids actually do listen to wh...
ADAM GREENE In the first few games, we've found a lot of hard work and a lot of dedication.
ADAM GREENE If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly cho...
GRAHAM GREENE You have to make it happen.
JOE GREENE For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
ROBERT GREENE We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamon...
GRAHAM GREENE I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain...
GRAHAM GREENE I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't t...
GRAHAM GREENE LAW 38
Think As You Like But Behave Like Others

If you make a show of going against ...
ROBERT GREENE LAW 25
Re-Create Yourself

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-cre...
ROBERT GREENE LAW 46
Never Appear Too Perfect

Appearing better than others is always dangerous, bu...
ROBERT GREENE LAW 4
Always Say Less Than Necessary

When you are trying to impress people with wo...
ROBERT GREENE In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness.
GRAHAM GREENE Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
GRAHAM GREENE Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not agains...
GRAHAM GREENE It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie ou...
GRAHAM GREENE Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There ...
GRAHAM GREENE Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of ...
GRAHAM GREENE He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai...
GRAHAM GREENE Failure too is a form of death...
GRAHAM GREENE His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.
GRAHAM GREENE However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a ma...
GRAHAM GREENE God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning o...
GRAHAM GREENE Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
GRAHAM GREENE Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves again...
GRAHAM GREENE We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
NATHANAEL GREENE A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi...
GRAHAM GREENE Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgi...
GRAHAM GREENE Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
GRAHAM GREENE A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that n...
GRAHAM GREENE When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
GRAHAM GREENE I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bri...
GRAHAM GREENE 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 Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet ar...
ROBERT GREENE 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 Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
ROBERT GREENE Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
GRAHAM GREENE Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint ...
GRAHAM GREENE It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
VIVIAN GREENE Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was...
ROBERT GREENE Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...
BRIAN GREENE I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be ...
ASHLEY GREENE It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horri...
ELLEN GREENE I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, O...
ASHLEY GREENE When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the f...
BRIAN GREENE Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confus...
BRIAN GREENE Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
BRIAN GREENE I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything n...
ASHLEY GREENE In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they p...
GRAHAM GREENE Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of h...
ELLEN GREENE Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experi...
BRIAN GREENE In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel v...
ASHLEY GREENE I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich'...
ASHLEY GREENE I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like...
ASHLEY GREENE I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just...
BRIAN GREENE ...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE I wouldn't say it's pressure it's more like a controlled nervousness. We've had a good season so far...
ANDY GREENE Basically, they're all really good teams - you're talking about the 16 best teams in the country. Th...
ANDY GREENE It's been electric here (at Goggin) all season, and we expect it to be the same way this weekend. We...
ANDY GREENE I wouldn't say it's pressure — it's more like a controlled nervousn...
ANDY GREENE Caruso played well tonight, as he always seems to do against us.
ANDY GREENE I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, but this is definitely a dream come true.
ANDY GREENE I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, but it is definitely a dream come true. I am looking forward...
ANDY GREENE Innocence is a kind of insanity
GRAHAM GREENE He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the ind...
GRAHAM GREENE My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to ...
JOE GREENE It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothi...
GRAHAM GREENE Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for math...
GRAHAM GREENE I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career polit...
JEFF GREENE I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.
JEFF GREENE Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
ROBERT GREENE Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relat...
ASHLEY GREENE The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extrao...
BRIAN GREENE Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually havi...
BRIAN GREENE Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
BRIAN GREENE String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from t...
BRIAN GREENE In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, ...
BRIAN GREENE No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
GRAHAM GREENE As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we k...
JOE GREENE People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...
GRAHAM GREENE Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or ha...
JOE GREENE I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to car...
NANCY GREENE I work with a charity called Donate My Dress. It's got chapters all over the country where you c...
ASHLEY GREENE A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to loo...
GRAHAM GREENE Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers.

ROBERT GREENE Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to m...
GRAHAM GREENE Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup an...
ROBERT GREENE The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware...
GRAHAM GREENE Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions...
BRIAN GREENE The Fair Housing Act felt that any community that wanted to exclude families with children would hav...
BRYAN GREENE Each case is going to be different. We want to know if there's a way for HUD to help.
BRYAN GREENE We beat the number one team by 20. We played good. If you beat the number one team by 20, you can be...
BRYAN GREENE We started working hard every day in practice. We started getting the right mind-set and getting res...
BRYAN GREENE Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
BRIAN GREENE When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my "Theorem".
BRIAN GREENE Right now we are facing adversity, but we just have to stick together. We have a chance to play in t...
BRIAN GREENE The observations are spectacular and the conclusions are stunning. It shows that galaxies are nothin...
BRIAN GREENE Erin Baker provided the offensive spark we so desperately needed, ... She scored the first goal of t...
BRIAN GREENE Being on the road and competing at such a high level will give us confidence going into league play ...
BRIAN GREENE As the astounding vastness of the universe becomes obscured, there is a throwback to a vision of a u...
BRIAN GREENE We don't abide by the SNIA definition for some specific reasons on the restore side of things. We fo...
BRIAN GREENE Experience: Citron 47 Restaurant and Lounge -- public liaison for food and liquor deliveries.
BRENDA GREENE What's your biggest regret?
BRENDA GREENE An interview is all about your answers to the company's questions,
BRENDA GREENE You got the interview because the company believes you have the necessary skills to handle the job. ...
BRENDA GREENE Employers feel they can teach you needed skills quickly. They want integrity, because after the late...
BRENDA GREENE When resumes come in, especially in this market, hiring managers aren't looking to find someone ... ...
BRENDA GREENE Yes, they are pretty silly sometimes,
BRENDA GREENE Movies have always been sold in a subscription environment, starting all the way back with premium t...
BOB GREENE Take advantage of this wonderful new platform that you're selling and tie it back to the incumbent p...
BOB GREENE There isn't one solution for every piece of content. There are some movies worth renting, and others...
BOB GREENE This is not just because you're building muscle, which weighs more than fat �...
BOB GREENE Her meter is triggered when [the gain] creeps into the teens or worse.
BOB GREENE Any new thing -- as long as it is safe and sound and provides results -- I think it's good, because ...
BOB GREENE I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.
BOB GREENE We are very pleased to be working with Sony CONNECT. Our visions about video delivery over broadband...
BOB GREENE We worked closely with Microsoft over the last year to get next-generation devices that satisfied th...
BOB GREENE Certainly, content companies are taking that position now of, I'm not sure I want to license it to y...
BOB GREENE Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a f...
BRIAN GREENE If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talk...
JOE GREENE Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and ...
ROBERT GREENE A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally exp...
BRIAN GREENE I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-sh...
ASHLEY GREENE I don't drink coffee. I like nice wines with dinner.
JEFF GREENE If there were not derivatives, there would be no bank loans at all today, because people want to get...
JEFF GREENE There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he ...
GRAHAM GREENE Somebody will get a gem.
CARLTON GREENE She has chosen to concentrate on basketball, and she has given it 110 percent of her interest, effor...
CARLTON GREENE The last two years, even though she hasn't been surrounded by great talent, she has made that talent...
CARLTON GREENE I think the best thing about Courtney is the way she has interacted with her team. Even being as suc...
CARLTON GREENE Tonight, she played the kind of game I expected her to have. We were trying to take away the inside,...
CARLTON GREENE With our defense, we were able to get the ball out in transition and run the floor, and that paid of...
CARLTON GREENE When you have two like that, sometimes teams have one good defensive player that they can put on one...
CARLTON GREENE It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all...
GRAHAM GREENE He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare; H...
ROBERT GREENE Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
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