G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. And where all three are present, you stand a very good chance of making a go of it.”
“Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. But often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.”
“Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.”
“Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct.”
“Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”
“Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.”
Source: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...
“Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.”
Source: The Modern Chesterfield
“Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.”
“Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
Source: Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker
“Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.”
Source: A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce
“Good-bye and hello, as always.”
Source: Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos
“Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation.”
Source: Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods
“Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“Good-bye Dr. Steve,' I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.”
Source: Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time
“Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.”
“Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel.”
“Good-bye to the lies of the poets.
[Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]”
“Good-bye, Graystripe. I love you. Take care of our kits.”
“Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you find a better life, find comfort again and your breathless smile, and when your beloved face lights up once more at the Western sunrise, be sure what I felt for you was not in vain. Good-bye and have faith, my Tatiana.”
“Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?”
“Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.”
Source: The House In Paris
“Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.”
“Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.”
Source: More in Anger
“Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.”
“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.”
Source: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler
“Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.”
“Good-humor is always a success.”
“Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.”
“Good-humor only teaches charms to last,
Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.”
“Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.”
“Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.”
“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.”
“Good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people.”
“Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.”
“Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye”
Source: The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851
“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
Source: Poetical works
“Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.”
“Good. Because I don't need protecting." "I knew you'd say that.But the thing is, sometimes you do. And sometimes I do. We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.”
“Good. Illegal is always faster.”
“Good. Now the first thing you do is press in the clutch and slide the gear into reverse." She placed his hand on the gear shift in the center of her car, and showed him how to move it up and down. "You know, you really shouldn't fondle that in front of me, Grace. It's cruel." "Julian! Do you mind? I'm only trying to show you how to shift my gears." He snorted. "I wish you'd shift my gears like that.”
“Good. Or instead, what if I just told you that I love you?” Payton gazed into his eyes. “What would you say, J. D. Jameson, if I told you that?” J.D. smiled. He touched his forehead to Payton’s, closed his eyes, and answered her with one word. “Finally.”
Source: Practice Makes Perfect
“Good.” He straddled her, caging her with his body. “Were it up to me, all of London would know what we do here. -Griffin to Hero.”
“Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feel… alive. Awakened.”
Source: Lover Awakened: Number 3 in series
“Good?” Cam said. “Right?” I took another bite and nodded. “Well, I have a whole ton of them at home.” He stretched as he rolled up his napkin. “Just saying.”
Source: Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)