A Quotes
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“A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.”
“A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.”
“A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.”
“A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.”
Source: The works
“A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.”
Source: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
“A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.”
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“A goodly soup, i'troth," he said, and he Trothed at the chicken, and Trothed at the waiter, and Trothed at both the waitresses (even the one who was not serving at the table at which they were sitting), and Trothed at the cheese, and Trothed at the furnishing of the dining-room (which met with his approval), and Trothed and Trothed and Trothed.”
Source: The Slaves of Solitude
“A goodness you do by waiting for a return is not a goodness, but just a cunning investment in the future!”
“A goods train was approaching. The platform shook, and it seemed to her as if she were again in the train.
Suddenly remembering the man who had been run over the day she first met Vronsky, she realized what she had to do. Quickly and lightly descending the steps that led from the water-tank to the rails, she stopped close to the passing train. She looked at the bottom of the trucks, at the bolts and chains, and large iron wheels of the slowly-moving front truck, and tried to estimate the middle point between the front and back wheels, and the moment when that point would be opposite her.
She wanted to fall half-way between the wheels of the front truck, which was drawing level with her, but the little red handbag which she began to take off her arm delayed her, and then she was too late. The middle had passed her. She was obliged to wait for the next truck. A feeling seized her like that she had experienced when preparing to enter the water in bathing, and she crossed herself. The familiar gesture of making the sign of the cross called up a whole series of girlish and childish memories, and suddenly the darkness, that obscured everything for her, broke, and life showed itself to her for an instant with all its bright past joys. But she did not take her eyes off the wheels of the approaching second truck, and at the very moment when the midway point between the wheels drew level, she threw away her red bag, and drawing her head down between her shoulders threw herself forward on her hands under the truck, and with a light movement as if preparing to rise again, immediately dropped on her knees. And at the same moment she was horror-struck at what she was doing. ‘Where am I? What am I doing? Why?’ She wished to rise, to throw herself back, but something huge and relentless struck her on her head and dragged her down. ‘God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling… A little peasant muttering something was working at the rails. The candle, by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up with a brighter light, lit up for her all that had before been dark, crackled, began to flicker, and went out for ever.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.”
“A googolplex of wishes,
To my lovely, Caring, pride!
From the first day of consciousness,
She was always by my side.
The one who always believed in me,
No matter how much the world opposed.
A very happy birthday to the one,
Who inspired me the most.”
“A goos wall well defended is worth a thousand prayers.”
Source: Avenging Son
“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
“A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.”
“A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“A gospel of contentment is a cheap gospel that teaches Salvation without the cross!”
“A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.”
“A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.”
“A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.”
“A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.”
“A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.”
“A Gothic church is a petrified religion.”
“A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.”
“A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.”
Source: Choice Cuts
“A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.”
“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”
“A governance model steeped in ethical practices earns public trust and legitimacy. When citizens witness their government’s unwavering commitment to ethical standards, it reinforces the foundations of a stable, harmonious society.”
Source: Heaven Is Under the Feet of Governments: Steering Nations With Maqasid
“A government always finds itself obliged to resort to inflationary measures when it cannot negotiate loans and dare not levy taxes, because it has reason to fear that it will forfeit approval of the policy it is following if it reveals too soon the financial and general economic consequences of that policy. Thus inflation becomes the most important psychological resource of any economic policy whose consequences have to be concealed; and so in this sense it can be called an instrument of unpopular, i.e. of anti-democratic, policy, since by misleading public opinion it makes possible the continued existence of a system of government that would have no hope of the consent of the people if the circumstances were clearly laid before them. That is the political function of inflation. It explains why inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.”
Source: The Theory of Money and Credit
“A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.”
Source: Minority Report
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
“A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty.”
“A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.”
Source: Works of Fisher Ames
“A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.”
“A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“A Government can create nothing. It cannot by any exercise of its powers, by legislative enactment, or judicial decree, or executive command, cause two blades of grass to grow where one grew before....It cannot command a tree to fall in the forest, and divide itself into planks and boards, from which chairs and tables may be made. All these results can be accomplished only by the labor of human hands.”
“A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.”
“A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.”
“A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.”
Source: God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics
“A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.”
“A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.”
“A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.”
Source: Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth
“A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.”
Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“A government elected on the basis of religion will discriminate on its behalf.”
Source: The Radicalist
“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”
“A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.”
Source: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state
“A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.”
“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation and regulation-of private property owners.”
“A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.”