I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.


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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
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
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
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
...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
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