G Quotes
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“Gore said foreigners are not worried about 'what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do.' Good. They should be worried. They hate us? We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell anger. Japanese Kamikazes pilots hated us once, too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons got their attention. Now they are gentle little lambs.”
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.”
“Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passing many unglamorous hours on off-peak cable TV. It was actually Vidal's great foe William F. Buckley who launched my part-time television career, by inviting me on to Firing Line when I was still quite young, and giving me one of the American Right's less towering intellects as my foil. The response to the show made my day, and then my week. Yet almost every time I go to a TV studio, I feel faintly guilty. This is pre-eminently the 'soft' world of dream and illusion and 'perception': it has only a surrogate relationship to the 'hard' world of printed words and written-down concepts to which I've tried to dedicate my life, and that surrogate relationship, while it, too, may be 'verbal,' consists of being glib rather than fluent, fast rather than quick, sharp rather than pointed. It means reveling in the fact that I have a meretricious, want-it-both-ways side. My only excuse is to say that at least I do not pretend that this is not so.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Gore Vidal said "Nixon is us, we are Nixon." I think we have to acknowledge that combination of idealism and sleaze; we want to be better than we are, and we sometimes don't face up to the real questions.”
“Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World War II. I agree with that thesis. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd or stupid they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy.”
“Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy. To me it was the most depressing thing, these full-scale military interventions firsthand for a number of years, seeing how quickly we can get involved in another war with very little debate.”
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.”
Source: Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world
“Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.”
“Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that sort of Soviet Bloc period. And actually, a lot of composers in the Soviet Bloc - Gorecki's not the only one - are writing for the harpsichord as a sort of reaction against enforced Soviet realism, expressionism, sort of enforced modernism.”
“Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor.”
Source: The Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated): Complete Sherlock Holmes Books, The Professor Challenger Series, The Brigadier Gerard Stories… (Including Poetry, Plays, Historical Works, Spiritualist Writings & Personal Memoirs)
“Gorgeous avenues gets lined up for you in the unseen when you keep pushing relentlessly through the pain, discomfort and challenges.”
“Gorgeous day here in Chicago. Sure is better than Canada.”
“Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.”
“Gorgeous,” he murmured.
She chuckled. “Think you’l say that in five months or so? When I waddle like a duck and you have to tie my shoes for me?”
“I’l say it then and forever.”
Source: Unleashed
“Gorgeous Tales! *****
I haven't read fairytales in forever, and this was just what I needed to get drawn back into magical worlds. Georgina Warren just has a way with words.”
“Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.”
“Gorgeous, glowing rays of light...This was what true beauty and goodness looked like-- a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.”
“gorgo’nun
hepimizi
taksim 1 mayıs alanı’na topladığı
o muhteşem günü de unutmamalı
anıtın çevresine sığışamayanları
taksim gezisine kovalattı
ve unsurlarıyla
bir hamlede kuşattı çevreyi
biz ne olduğumuzdan
korkup bağırıp
çığırınca
coplar zehirli gazlar
ardından basınçlı sular
işledi maksemin ordan
su ki bir damlası bile azizdir
biz laikler için
çocukları alıp havada döndürüp
yere çalmaya başladı
(...)
“avm kulesinin tepesinden
seslendi gorgo:
ölümümü bekleyenler
avucunu yalasın
ölmeyeceğim
yüzyıllar sürse de
sizi değiştirene kadar
başınızdayım”
Source: Tuhaf Bir Erkek
“Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare.”
“Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.”
“Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'”
“Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?”
“Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.”
“Gorillas would be less scary with bunny ears. Actually, what isn't less scary with bunny ears? Osama Bin Laden with bunny ears. Ha! So cute.”
“Gorillaz virtually changed my wife...sorry, I mean, life...no, actually, it was my wife.”
“Gorlog's teeth!" Erak exclaimed, stunned at the numbers. "How many are there?" "Ten thousand, maybe twelve," Halt replied briefly. The Skandian let out a low whistle. "Are you sure? How can you tell?" It wasn't a sensible question, but Erak was overwhelmed by the size of the horse herd and he asked the question more for something to say than for any other reason. Halt looked at him dryly. "It's an old calvary trick," he said. "You count the legs and divide by four.”
“Gormenghast.
Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires a zephyr floats; a bird whistles; a freshet beats away from a choked river. Deep in a fist of stone a doll's hand wriggles, warm rebellious on the frozen palm. A shadow shifts its length. A spider stirs...
And darkness winds between the characters.
- Gormenghast”
“Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.”
Source: Titus Groan
“Gorse bitter pea
Meaning: Ill-natured beauty
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Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Gorsuch, who is a U.S. Supreme Court nominee in the United States, said the real test of law is when a government can lose in its own courts and still respect the order. And I think Canadian need to ask is why would Canada, if it's doing everything right, why wouldn't you want to be watched? If they are contesting the fact that their own courts don't have jurisdiction over the government's human rights violations, then our next step is to go to federal court and find the federal government that can come to court and we will do that.”
“Goru – Gebalim ili gebim, svakodnevo je gledao pred sobom... Do Velebita je mislio, Gebalim bi morao biti čovjek vezan uz planinu. Na Velebitu je doznao, Hrvati su riječ gebim izmijenili u dvije riječi – hara i hora. Osim gore, Gebalim je za njih značio prijatelja, ali i vladara svim Hrvatima. Vjerovali su da baš od gore potječe ime Hrvat... Nadmetali su se u čitanju Biblije i poglavlja u kojima im se ime spominjalo: Iz 10, 29; Iz 10, 31; Ez 27, 9; Ps 83, 8. Konstantin je prihvatio: Gebalim su oni – narod gore, Gebalim im je i vladar. Pismo je namirisalo njega, Gebalima vladara.”
Source: AZ
“Gory frontline memories from war in the Philippines returned to Mitch as he submerged himself in the brush. He sunk deep into the leaves and mud, and stayed there. He remembered scenes from the jungle. The tremors of falling bombs. The smell of smoke.”
Source: Ruthless Shadow
“Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn’t really scare me. I’d say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don’t know what it is. Is there something there or not?”
“Gos bless America, my home sweet home.”
“Gosa escalar la boira amb peu solà.
Ran de la deu, amor, ran de l'eixut,
hauràs, al cim de tot, la solitud.
Pots compartir-la amb mi, com un brenar
tendre i amarg, la mel, damunt el pa
i el bri de pena que l'hora ens ha dut.”
Source: Bruixa de dol
“Gosain Rajendra Giri and his disciplines has ... played a long and distinguished part in the History of Hindustan.”
Source: A History Of Dasnami Naga Sanyasis
“Gosh,
I did it so well.
I didn't give up.
I saved myself.
It was not easy,
Not at all but,
I did it so well.”
Source: The Forest of Feelings
“Gosh, so this house must be a nunnery!”
-Lilly to Sophia”
Source: The Forest of Evergreen (Volume 2): Found in the Wilderness
“Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.”
“Gosh, I love saying Booyakasha! I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying Booyakasha.”
“Gosh, I made so many mistakes. I mean I still make mistakes. We all do.”
“Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.”
“Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!”
“Gosh, it was nice talking to you, but I’ve got a lot of things I’d rather be doing. Like sticking my hand in the garbage disposal.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Gosh, what a gripping story. You must have been simply terrified. Meanwhile we went to Godric's Hollow and, let's think, what happened there, Harry? Oh yes, You-Know-Who's snake turned up, it nearly killed both of us, and then You-Know-Who himself arrived and missed us by about a second. Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?”
“Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.”
“Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.”
“Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect a certain set of values and morals. So everything that we do, every decision that we make, every picture that we take has a different weight on it. It's always interesting in balancing being an artist but being a minister as well.”
“Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts”
Source: Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
“Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.”