G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service!”
“Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”
“Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.”
“Great. Now Renata would have even more reason to dislike her. Jane would have an enemy. The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.”
Source: Big Little Lies
“Great. Now she’s got you questioning yourself. What a bitch.”
“Hey now, brain. Don’t you talk about her like that. I’d hate to have to kick your ass.”
My brain smiles and nods in approval.
“See? Good guy”
Source: Sugar Rush
“Great! Now, that the crybaby whining bullshit is settled, let’s load up on one of these buses and head for the sewers!”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.”
“Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.”
“Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.”
Source: History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.
“Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.”
“Great obstacles make great leaders.”
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.”
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.”
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.”
“Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.”
Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]
“Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.”
Source: Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God
“Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.”
Source: Personality Development
“Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.”
Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson
“Great offices will have great talents.”
Source: The Beauties of Cowper; Or, Extracts ... for the Use of Schools ... By John Corry
“Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.”
“Great opinions will always matter, but at the end you should always follow the road that is written inside your heart”
“Great opinions will always matter, but at the end you should always follow the roadmap that is written inside your heart”
“Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.”
“Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.”
“Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.”
“Great opportunities come as often from saying "No" as they do from saying "Yes.”
“Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids
“Great opportunity for technology/media companies to meet the movers and shakers in the broadcast and media industries.”
“Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.”
“Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.”
“Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters
“Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.”
“Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.”
“Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.”
“Great outcomes come with countless amounts of income of investments and losses.”
“Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.”
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
“Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.”
“Great paines quickly find ease.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan
“Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers”
Source: Villette
“Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.”
Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn
“Great paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee mugs and mouse pads and anything-you-like. And, I count myself in the following, you can have a lifetime of perfectly sincere museum-going where you traipse around enjoying everything and then go out and have some lunch. But if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I love this picture because it’s universal.’ ‘I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.’ That’s not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It’s a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes you. An individual heart-shock. Your dream, Welty’s dream, Vermeer’s dream. You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card at the museum gift shop sees something else entire, and that’s not even to mention the people separated from us by time—four hundred years before us, four hundred years after we’re gone—it’ll never strike anybody the same way and the great majority of people it’ll never strike in any deep way at all but—a really great painting is fluid enough to work its way into the mind and heart through all kinds of different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular. Yours, yours. I was painted for you. And—oh, I don’t know, stop me if I’m rambling… but Welty himself used to talk about fateful objects. Every dealer and antiquaire recognizes them. The pieces that occur and recur. Maybe for someone else, not a dealer, it wouldn’t be an object. It’d be a city, a color, a time of day. The nail where your fate is liable to catch and snag.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew over. A dashed pretty and lively and attractive girl, mind you, but full of ideals and all that. I may be wronging her, but I have an idea that she's the sort of girl who would want a fellow to carve out a career and what not. I know I've heard her speak favourably of Napoleon. So what with one thing and another the jolly old frenzy sort of petered out, and now we're just pals. I think she's a topper, and she thinks me next door to a looney, so everything's nice and matey.”
“Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all the parts of civilised community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together.”
Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies
“Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.”
Source: I'm Running Away from Home, But I'm Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women's Liberation
“Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“Great passions are incurable diseases.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!”
“Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.”
Source: The Renaissance
“Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.”