G Quotes
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“Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.”
Source: Powers
“Gradually the idea for a book began to take shape. It was to be a wildly ambitious and intolerant work, a kind of 'Anatomy of Restlessness' that would enlarge on Pascal's dictum about the man sitting quietly in a room. The argument, roughly, was as follows: that in becoming human, man had acquired, together with his straight legs and striding walk, a migratory 'drive' or instinct to walk long distances through the seasons; that this 'drive' was inseparable from his central nervous system; and, that, when warped in conditions of settlement, it found outlets in violence, greed, status-seeking or a mania for the new. This would explain why mobile societies such as the gypsies were egalitarian, thing-free and resistant to change; also why, to re-establish the harmony of the First State, all the great teachers - Buddha, Lao-tse, St Francis - had set the perpetual pilgrimage at the heart of their message and told their disciples, literally, to follow The Way.”
Source: Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings, 1969-1989
“Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.”
“Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.”
“Gradually, the Murshid helps the Murid to see wider horizons, leading the ego to open its petals and flower, embracing a greater totality of being.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Gradually, the physical cruelty and punishment beatings started and it got worse. He’d be on his knees to try to teach me how to fight, so my father made out. Whack! His hand would slap in to my face with the full force might of a 6ft 4in 18st man!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.”
Source: New miscellanies
“Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.”
“Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.”
“Gradually the winds became more frequent and aggressive, forcing the trees to abandon their leaves that passed over me like pixies venturing into the night on wild stallions.”
Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology
“Gradually these situations arise, she can see that now, just one step after another, and by the time a few weeks or months have passed, your life is no longer recognizable. You are lying to almost everyone you know. You have come to care passionately, too fully and completely, for an unsuitable person. You can no longer visualize your own future: not only five years from now, but five months, even five weeks. Everything is in disarray. All this for one person, for the relation that exists between you. Your fidelity to the idea of that reason. In the light of that, you have come to hold too loosely many other important things: the respect of your family, the admiration of your colleagues and acquaintances, even the understanding of your closest friends. Life, after all, has not slipped free of its netting, holding people in place, making sense of things. It is not possible to tear away the constraints and simply carry on a senseless existence. People, other people make it impossible. But without other people, there would be no life at all. Judgement, reprisal, disappointment, conflict: these are the means by which people remain connected to one another. Because of Margaret's friends, her former marriage, her family, colleagues, people in town, she is not entirely free to live the limitless spontaneous life that she has imagined for herself. But because of Ivan, because of whatever there is between them, she is, on the other hand, not entirely free to return to her previous existence either. The demands of other people do not dissolve; they only multiply. More and more complex, more difficult. Which is another way, she thinks, of saying: more life, more and more of life.”
Source: Intermezzo
“Gradually, through honest and courageous self-examination, correction and repentance, the blessed consequence is that our mortal intentions become increasingly more congruent with our core spirit intentions. This greater spiritual integrity aligns us ever more closely with Deity and the Universe.”
Source: Some Universals, Vol. 2: Intention and Attention
“Gradually too, Trotta's disappointment was replaced by a sweet melancholy. He made a pact with his sadness. Everything in the world was as sad as it could be, and at the very heart of this wretched world was the Lieutenant. It was for him that the frogs were bruiting so piteously tonight, and the pain-filled crickets were waiting on his behalf. It was for him that the spring night was filled with such a sweet and easy sadness, for him that the stars were positioned so unattainably high in the sky, and it was to him alone that their light blinked so longingly and vainly. The unending pain of the world fitted itself to Trotta's hurt.”
Source: The Radetzky March
“Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.”
Source: Selected essays
“Gradually work your way towards the hard stuff. That will help you avoid injury and you'll be most likely to stick with it.”
“Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.”
Source: The Scientific Outlook
“Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get.”
“Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.”
“Gradually, by processing emotion and understanding the psychological action involved, you realize it isn't really complex. It may seem so at first, but that's because you still belong to your emotions and opinions--you think they're yours and that they're real. They aren't--they belong to the ego. The Infinite Self cannot be insecure.”
Source: Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
“Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers
and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt
of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of
sheep against the practice of eating mutton.”
Source: The Impact of Science On Society
“Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.”
Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
“Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather as a network of relations, and that, ultimately, there are no parts at all in this interconnected web. Whatever we call a part is merely a pattern that has some stability and therefore captures our attention.”
“Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.”
Source: Lord Foul's Bane
“Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.”
“Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.”
“Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.”
“Gradualmente, el enigma concreto que me atareaba me inquietó menos que el enigma genérico de una sentencia escrita por un dios. ¿Qué tipo de sentencia (me pregunté) construirá una mente absoluta? Consideré que aun en los lenguajes humanos no hay proposición que no implique el universo entero…”
“Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.”
“Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.”
“Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.”
“Graduate study is an intensive education.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.”
“Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you're pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job. And life is too short for that.”
“Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.”
“Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.”
“Graduation certifies knowledge; how you use it will certify your impact.”
“Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.”
“Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.”
“Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter”
“Graduation is not the end of learning, it’s the moment you acknowledge that learning never ends.”
“Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.”
“Gradul de civilizaţie al unei ţări ar trebui să se măsoare în puşcăriaşi. Dacă într-o ţară lipsesc puşcăriaşii, nu înseamnă că lipseşte criminalitatea. E vorba despre alte tare ale „civilizaţiei” — corupţie, ignoranţă, lacune legislative.”
Source: Insula Diavolului
“Grady and Preston were both after the same mark in Paris a few years ago,” Julian said to
Zane. “They met during what I hear was a drunken, debauched night of… selling antiques. That’s how
I knew Ty had been there. I never saw him.”
“Such unnecessary details,” Preston murmured.
“Ty, seriously,” Zane grunted.
“How is this my fault?” Ty asked in exasperation.
“Do you have a history with every guy with a gun in the Northern hemisphere?”
“Oh, like you don’t have some winners back there you hope we never run into. Let’s head to
Miami and see what comes out of the woodwork.”
“Ty.”
“I like guys with guns!”
“Oh my God,” Julian muttered as he rubbed at his eyes.”
Source: Armed & Dangerous
“Grady gave him a small smile. “Would it make you feel any better if I told you I have a gray-water reclamation system?”
Max laughed and sat up, pulling Grady with him. “Of course you do. Come on, we can conserve water together.”
Source: Unrivaled
“Grady had never spoken to Lockhart off the ice and couldn’t decide if he was being an asshole or being sincere. Maybe he was a sincere asshole.”
Source: Unrivaled
“Grady Nichols is the awesome new sax player for the millennium.”
“Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.”
“Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.”
Source: Ender’s Game