G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.”
“Great Britain enabled the Zionists to create the springboard from which they were ultimately able to take over the entire country at the expense of its indigenous population. It thereby helped significantly to produce a conflict that only became more bitterly intractable as time went on.”
Source: The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
“Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.”
“Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from Europe, based on a special relationship with the United States, on being the head of the Commonwealthis about to be played out. Her Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my opinion, to re-enter Europe.”
“Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.”
“Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.”
“Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.”
“Great Britain revolutionized parts of their regulatory process by actually bringing the people who were going to be regulated to the table and suddenly found that they could solve the problems at a lot lower cost by, again, going back to the thing that tends to be most uninteresting, particularly in cable news, and looking at the actual process.”
“Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.”
“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
“Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.”
Source: The Essential Victor Hugo
“Great business turns on a little pin.”
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum
“Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”
“Great businesses turne on a little pinne.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Great businessmen are creators.”
“Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.”
“Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.”
“Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals”
Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.”
“Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.”
“Great causes and little men go ill together.”
Source: Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects
“Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.”
“Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.”
“Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.”
“Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.”
“Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.”
Source: The First Codex
“Great change is always preceded by chaos and confusion, and our darkest moments have great purpose.”
Source: Name, Claim & Reframe: Your Path to a Well-Lived Life
“Great changes are about to take place in the whole universe. It will not be a comfortable time. It is important that each one has no fear, no concern, knowing that this great upheaval is necessary before the next step can be taken.”
“Great changes are easier than small ones.”
“Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.”
“Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.”
“Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.”
“Great character is forged through hardships.”
“Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have great characters it is impossible to create a good plot, nonetheless a solid one. Once you have built great characters for the scenes, there you have it. It’s just like the movies, you cannot have a great film if the characters are frail and their lines are weak as well. I guess great world-building comes along with a good plot. If there is something that will work fine in a novel is how you will develop from the theme. You’ve got to establish a good timeline, and from there it comes a world. You see the technical matters don’t match or matter as much to me. Even a poorly written story, if there is a good plot and great characters on it will make a divine combination There are simply many cases of it over the mainstream and that even reached the big screen.”
Source: How to Make a Book
“Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts”
“Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.”
“Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.”
“Great CIOs are great storytellers, envision and communicate a full-fledged, people-centric digital transformation.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.”
Source: Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
“Great cities are the fulcrums of history in the twentieth century. In their boardrooms and byways, decisions of life and death are made with the regularity of falling leaves of the calendar... Such a fulcrum is the Wayne Foundation building in the city of Gotham... where one Jeremy Wormwood -- financier, socialite, and freelance assassin -- has been summoned...”
Source: Detective Comics (1937-2011) #450
“Great civilization demands great sacrifice.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly, for though we have tread upon the surface of the moon, we have remained bigots and arrogant egotists. Walk softly, for history repeats its self with little provacation.”
“Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.”
“Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.”
“Great clouds with dragging tails, black-edged and filled with rain, came scudding from the west, and now and again with sudden bursting fury emptied themselves as hail. The sea was a turmoil in the western bay. In the fields on either side of the road the gulls screamed and dipped in the fresh ploughed earth, seeking the green shoots fostered by the early spring.”
Source: MY COUSIN RACHEL
“Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space”
“Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.”
“Great coaches are visionaries. Great coaches instill, nurture, and encourage vision, then model and motivate surrender to it.”
“Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.”