G Quotes
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“Goodness, that stuff rips like paper,” she exclaimed, reaching to pull her tank top off. She was halfway through the action when the door opened and Alec walked into the room.
“Izzy, are you—” he began. His eyes flew wide, and he backed up fast enough to smack his head into the wall behind him. “What is he doing here?”
Isabelle tugged her tank top back down and glared at her brother. “You don’t knock now?”
“It—It’s my bedroom!” Alec spluttered. He seemed to be deliberately trying not to look at Izzy and Simon, who were indeed in a very compromising position.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...
“Goodness transcends badness.”
“Goodness was daily choice, endless possibility, a decision at every crossroads.”
Source: For the Throne
“Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.”
Source: The Autobiography of God: A Novel
“Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.”
Source: The Road
“Goodness without freedom and freedom without goodness are both impossible.”
“Goodness without knowledge... is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous.... Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind. Many men went a walking and many crippled men, did not.”
“Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Goodness works in mysterious ways. Even in the deepest dark, you’ll find a light to shine your way through.”
Source: Return to the Isle of the Lost
“Goodness. Yeah, just plain, simple goodness. Well you can’t inherit that from anybody. You got to make it, Doc. If you want it. And you got to make it out of badness. Badness. And you know why, Doc?” He raised his bulk up in the broken-down wreck of an overstuffed chair he was in, and leaned forward, his hands on his knees, his elbows cocked out, his head outthrust and the hair coming down to his eyes, and stared into Adam’s face. “Out of badness,” he repeated. “And you know why? Because there isn’t anything else to make it out of.” Then, sinking back into the wreck, he asked, softly, “Did you know that, Doc?”
Source: All the King's Men
“Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!”
“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.”
“Goodness, for me, has to start in my own backyard: find what's beautiful about where I am right now, rather than criticizing myself for what I'm not. We live in a culture where physical perfection and youth is revered, and so women over a certain age begin to feel irrelevant.”
“Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.”
Source: Think on these things
“Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!”
Source: Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles: Letters from Helen Evans Brown
“Goodness, my nose is enormous,' she exclaimed. 'Why didn't anyone tell me?”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.”
“Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first”
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel
“Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.”
“Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.”
Source: Fade Out
“Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Goodnight," he awkwardly told her.
She didn't respond. Her eyes opened and she looked intently out the dark window as he turned to the door where Dai waited.
"Are you going to kill me?" she asked softly.
Conor grimaced; of course she had overheard their conversation. He kept his back to her, resting a hand on the door. Every time he entertained the thought, he went back to the conversation with Idris before the older man had left for Vara. Idris had ardently argued that if he could win the loyalty of his daughter, it would be certain to change the tide of the war. Conor glanced back at her, noticing the fear in her blue eyes--- eyes that reminded him of Idris.
"No," he quietly said before exiting the room, the door banging shut behind him.”
Source: The Hunter: Tales of Pern Coen
“Goodnight,” he leaned over to whisper against my head. “But never goodbye.”
“Never goodbye,” I agreed, as two hands captured mine, pulling my arms over Fjor’s legs to rest against the man either side of him.
“Never goodbye”
Source: A World of Lost Words
“Goodnight, June.”
Source: Prodigy
“Goodnight moon
I don't see you, but I feel you
What should I say or do?
You're always there when I am dreamin'
You make me smile
You make me cry
I feel the earth just spinning
Goodnight, moon
I'll wait for you in every evening
To fill my heart with hope
When everything is hopeless
To make me your companion
And fly between my dreams
Don't be upset, I'm yours in every night
Just sometimes fell asleep to quick
And I'm to tired, so much tired
To tell you my Goodnight”
“Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.”
“Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush”
“Goodnight, screwballs, you’re goddam lucky you got each other; no one in their right mind would wantcha.”
Source: Memories
“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
“Goodnight, sweet schoolmaster. It's been a pleasure."
On which he walked out, arse-naked, carrying his clothes under his arm and his boots by the heels so as not to mar their leather with thumbprints. I lay back on my bed and stared at the ceiling.
A moment later the door reopened and Hentzau stuck his head in. "Are you going to tell me what you were up to that night? I meant to seduce it out of you, but I forgot.”
Source: The Henchmen of Zenda
“Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don't do that.”
“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
“Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.”
“Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you.”
“Goodreads.com is a festering cesspool of limited, if any, value.”
“GoodReads: Do people still ask you about your mental health?
Susanna Kaysen: Well, they used to a lot. "Are you still crazy?" was how people put it. And I would say, "Yes, but I'm older, so I'm more used to it." It's familiar. You've been there, you've done that, and it's gone away. I think the fact that you can feel like it's the end of the world and you're going to kill yourself and yet there's some part of you that says "this has happened before." And by the time you get to the point where you can say "this has happened 137 times before," it's better than saying "this has happened four times before." So as you get older, there's a little ironist or cynic or somebody inside you who says, "Yeah, uh-huh. Right, OK, I've heard that, I've heard that.”
“Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early death for sorrow. Success is not for him to be pround of, failure is no shame. Had he all the world's power he would not hold it as his own. If he conquered everything he would not take it to himself. His glory is in knowing that all things come together in One and life and death are equal.”
“Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Goods are theirs that enjoy them.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are coming close to exporting a haircut, the appointment part. What kind of haircut do you want? Which barber do you want? All those things can and will be done by a call center far away.”
Source: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
“Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.”
Source: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner
“Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.”
“Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.”
Source: The Ethics of Competition
“Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.”
“Goods were arranged in glass cabinets as if they were ancient Egyptian artefacts. I was a contaminant, a fly in the gourmet soup, a spanner in the golden machine that sparkled and hummed before my eyes."
Reid, A. J. (2012-11-08). A Smaller Hell (Kindle Locations 319-321). . Kindle Edition.”
Source: A Smaller Hell
“Goods which are not shared are not goods.”