G.G. Collins Quotes

The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch

Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.

Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.

Make sure they remember you.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

Perception determines insanity.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.

Katniss, the girl who was on fire!

I really think everything happens for a reason.

Dressage is when you put a dress on your horse. It's like putting on drag, but for horses.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

I knew that I was choosing the road less traveled but I'm not walking it alone.

Destroying things is much easier than making them.

If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.

But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

When I try to use incantations at work i often find they have no effect and my coworkers just laugh at me.

Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

The U.S. Open is the only place in America where you can't trade in your Mercedes-Benz for a hamburger.

The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.

In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

You call that a kiss?

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.

to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance

Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.