G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Great fear is concealed under daring.”
“Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.”
“Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.”
“Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has penetrated that darkness so memorably - you can even say beautifully, a relentless riveting forensic dark beauty that some readers in fact find themselves unable to endure - as Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Especially in "The Part about the Crimes." But here's the thing: nobody would call 2666 a "narco novel."”
“Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.”
Source: On Writing
“Great fish do not drown in small rivers.”
“Great fish do not swim in shallow waters.”
“Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.”
“Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.”
Source: A Budget of Paradoxes
“Great floods have flown From simple sources.”
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“Great floors aren’t just walked on, they create lasting impressions”
“Great food also had the ability to attract great talent. "I don't know what to do," senior engineer Luiz Barroso moaned to Jeff Dean the night he had to decide whether to join VMWare or Google. "I've made these lists. I've assigned points to all the pros and cons, and it's tied at 112 to 112." Jeff knew that the day of Luiz's interview at Google, Charlie had served creme brulee for lunch. "Did you factor in the creme brulee?" he asked. "Because I know you really like creme brulee." "Oh no! I didn't consider that," Luiz admitted. The next morning he accepted Google's offer.”
Source: I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
“Great food is similar to great sex. Extra you have greater you want.”
“Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.”
Source: The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels
“Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.”
“Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.”
“Great for good, or great for evil.”
“Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“Great friends are great givers.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“Great friends love others as much as they want others to love them.”
Source: Becoming True Friends In A Turbulent World
“Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.”
“Great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob.”
“Great Gates almighty,” HARV said inside my brain. “I go off-line for a few nanos and the whole world goes to DOS.”
Source: The Plutonium Blonde
“Great generals generate legions of naïve fans.”
Source: They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civil War
“Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.”
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.”
“Great God.
Glorious God.
Gracious God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Great God, Great faith.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Great God, Great faith.
Great faith, Great spirit.
Great spirit, Great soul.
Great soul, great life.
Great life, great deeds.
Great deeds, great blessings.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!”
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.”
“Great God of wonders:God has always acted in my point of need.”
“Great God of wonders; my rock and my redeemer!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Great God of wonders, praise be to your greatness.”
“Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn”
“Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.”
“Great God! This is an awful place.”
“Great God, grant that twice two be not four.”
“Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!”
“Great God, what do I see and hear!
The end of things created!
The judge of mankind doth appear
On clouds of glory seated!
The trumpet sounds; the graves restore,
The dead which they contained before;
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!”
“Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Great gowns, beautiful gowns.”
“Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.”
Source: The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford
“Great grace is the power of great thanks.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Great-grandma Elisa Ramires was a promising cook at an inn. The job was her only opportunity to raise Grandma on her own, so she made herself famous with a buttery, delicately savory fubá cake recipe. Dona Elizabete Molina had been at the inn longer than Great-grandma, and she was also famous for her own recipe. Milk pudding. It was said to be so smooth it slid on your tongue.
The two were often at odds. They each wanted to prove to the neighborhood who was the best cook in town, and the opportunity came about with a cooking contest.
The night before the contest, Great-grandma and Dona Elizabete were busy preparing their entry dishes and tending to the many guests at the inn. It was a busy night, with many tourists in town for Carnival.
Nerves frazzled, shoulder to shoulder, and vying for space in the small kitchen, the story goes that the cooks accidentally tripped each other and sent their cake and pudding flying off the trays.
Miraculously, the layers stacked up. Dona Elizabete's milk pudding landed atop Great-grandma's fubá cake. Maybe Dona Elizabete held the tray at the right angle until the last second and the pudding had enough surface tension to just slide off the right way without breaking. Maybe Great-grandma's cake was firm enough to hold the delicate layer of pudding atop. Whatever the case, they tried this new, accidental two-layered cake and realized that their recipes complemented each other beautifully. When they passed samples around to the guests, their reaction was proof that they'd produced perfection.
No one remembers if they still entered the contest. Because from that moment on, the only thing everyone could talk about was their new recipe, the one they called "Salt and Sugar". One layer fubá cake, one layer pudding.”
Source: Salt and Sugar
“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”