G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Give me the gift of a listening heart.”
“Give me the gun." Ranger said. I extracted the gun from my pants and handed it over. Ranger held the gun in the pulm of his hand and smiled. "It's warm," he said. He put the gun in the glove compartment and plugged the key into the ignition. Am I fired?" No. Any women who can heat up a gun like that is worth keeping around.”
“Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.”
Source: Black Beauty
“Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
“Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.”
“give me the light ; please take away the dark.”
Source: Tender
“Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God”
“Give me the lowest place: not that I dare
Ask for that lowest place, but Thou hast died
That I might live and share
Thy glory by Thy side.
Give me the lowest place: of if for me
That lowest place too high, make one more low
Where I may sit and see
My God and love Thee so.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
“Give me the memory,' he orders.
Indignation lifts my chin. 'Touch me without permission, and you'll spend the rest of your life regretting it.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.”
“Give me the muny the cars, the case loads The mun-mun muny the Yen & the Pesos”
“Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.”
“Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.”
“Give me the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, and I will predict the future.”
“Give me the power to love; give me the power to be kind. Give me the power to forgive; and give me the power to be non-judgmental.”
“Give me the power to produce fever and I’ll cure all disease.”
“Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.”
Source: The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions
“Give me the purple smoke, rising higher and higher into my brain until I dance with the purple butterflies.” -Girl with the violet eyes.”
Source: The Boy with the Koi Tattoo
“Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.”
“Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.”
“Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.”
Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
“Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”
“Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Give me the strength to lead, for I fear otherwise we may hang ourselves.”
“Give me the strength to leaf, for I fear otherwise we may hang ourselves.”
Source: Wicked Girls
“Give me the strength to move through my day with grace and love in my heart.”
“give me
the tender and the fire.
i want the angst and ache
and wild mess.
all of it broken open,
nothing less.
because there’s just nothing else
that can disarm me like that.
it completely takes me apart…
a man’s passion and
raw vulnerability,
the stretching of his heart walls
and all those flowers growing
from his chest.”
“Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.”
“Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.”
“Give me thirty minutes in a hostel, hotel or hospital and I can walk out with a novel idea.”
“Give me thirty pounds of mussels, twenty-five of scampi, as much squid as you can get me, some whitefish, snapper, sea bass, and sardines- whatever you've got. That will get me through today, and when you get here I'll give you an order for the rest of the week."
I'm too spent to repeat my outraged performance for Rob, the meat guy, because by now I know that neither he nor Eddie is to blame. But because we're great customers, Rob agrees to rush me over some sausage, a dozen pork tenderloins, and some flank steak, which I can cook quickly, for braciole.
I instruct the prep cooks to roll out some lasagna noodles and to start preparing béchamel in large quantities. We will resort to a couple of baked pasta entrees, flavored with meat and sausage and, depending on what Eddie sends over, a cioppino.”
Source: Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses
“Give me this moment," Kahl said to me. I glanced up at him and couldn't fathom the depths of his taunting amber irises.
"You have it."
"Be my angel... Leave with me," he whispered. In that moment, when thoughts of the boy I loved left me and fissures of pure bliss consumed me, I knew I was in trouble.”
Source: Deceiving Destiny
“Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!”
Source: Faust
“Give me those moments where I think he's coming back. I can take the hurt. The reminder that he's not coming back-and why-will keep me fighting.”
Source: Autoboyography
“Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!”
“Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.”
“Give me time, for everything has its season. Do not judge me by my current steps, as each step has its season, as written in Ecclesiastes 3:1. Every step is part of my journey toward the summit.”
“GIVE ME TIME TO CONSIDER, O IMPATIENT LESTER.
"But I don't have time! We're leaving for Tarquin's tomb like,"—I glanced to the west, where the sun was beginning to sink behind the hills—"basically now!"
THE JOURNEY INTO THE TOMB WILL NOT BE THY FINAL CHALLENGE. UNLESS THOU SUCKETH MOST WOEFULLY.
"Is that supposed to make me feel better?"
FIGHT NOT THE KING, said the arrow. HEAREST THOU WHAT THOU NEEDEST, AND SKEDADDLETH.
"Did you just use the term skedaddleth?"
I TRY TO SPEAK PLAINLY TO THEE, TO GRANT THEE A BOON, AND STILL THOU COMPLAINEST.”
Source: The Tyrant’s Tomb
“Give me time" "For you, always.”
Source: Sever
“Give me to drink mandragora.”
“Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".”
“Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.”
“Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.”
Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843
“Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.”
“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”