G Quotes
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“Guilt simply says that you are a sinner. And the feeling of shame simply shows you that you need not be a sinner, that you are meant to be a saint. If you are a sinner it is only because of your unconsciousness; you are not a sinner because the society follows a certain morality and you are not following it.”
“Guilt soon learns to lie.”
Source: Ishmael: A Novel
“Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.”
Source: Dune: The Gateway Collection
“Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.”
“Guilt takes away the energy and strength and reduces a person’s productivity”
“Guilt, therefore, I do not acknowledge: and, if I did, it is possible that I might still resolve on the present act of confession, in consideration of the service which I may thereby render to the whole class of opium-eaters.”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater & Other Writings
“guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine”
“Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.”
“Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the fear and the necessity became abstract. And only her own actions stood out with crystal clarity.”
Source: Fear
“Guilt was a living, breathing thing. Guilt could tie you tighter than ropes, and he should know. He had extensive experience with both. He’d been the captive of a madman, along with Jess, for three days that had felt like an eternity. Then, this past year, he’d been a POW in Afghanistan, the prisoner of insurgents, for six torturous months. Yet it had been the three days with Jess that had broken him in ways the insurgents could never accomplish.”
Source: Threat of Danger
“Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed”
“Guilt was its own prison.”
Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel
“Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.”
Source: Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier
“Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.”
Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)
“Guilt was written all over his face. He could see it in his reflection.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Guilt wears track shoes. Sprint, marathon, or cross-country, it doesn’t matter. It runs tireless to catch you, and it carries a sledgehammer.”
“Guilt's a terrible thing.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir
“Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.”
“Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.”
“Guilt, the poor man's mind control.”
“Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.”
“Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.”
“Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.”
“Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.”
“Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.”
Source: A Course in Miracles Made Easy: Mastering the Journey from Fear to Love
“Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.”
Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession
“Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use”
Source: Cymbeline. Othello
“Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.”
“Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.”
“Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.”
“Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.”
“Guilty?” George’s face betrayed his surprise.
“Whatever for?”
“That neither of your brothers ever offered for me.”
Another thing she probably should not have said. But as it happened, Billie did think that Lady Manston felt this way. And when George’s expression slid from curiosity to something that might have been jealousy… well, Billie could not help but feel a little pleased.
“So I think she’s trying to make it up to me,” she said gamely.
“It’s not as if I was waiting for one of them to ask me, but I think she thinks I was, so now she wants to introduce me —”
“Enough,” George practically barked.
“I beg your pardon?”
He cleared his throat.
“Enough,” he said in a much more evenly tempered voice.
“It’s ridiculous.”
“That your mother feels this way?”
“That she thinks introducing you to a pack of useless fops is a sensible idea.”
Billie took a moment to enjoy this statement.”
Source: Because of Miss Bridgerton
“Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.”
Source: The Furies
“Guinea has managed to go 42 days consecutively without any new Ebola infections. And that comes after neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, the other two West African countries that were hardest hit by Ebola, have been through the same cycle of zero Ebola cases.”
“Guinevere and Arthur's story is so about the passion. It's about the sexual attraction between them. You can't have that story and show that sexual attraction with them kissing, and then shut the door. It just doesn't work. It's such an important part of their relationship and what happens in Camelot later on. It's who they are and how they bond.”
“Guinevere grew grey in the grey shadow
At all things losing who at all things grasped”
Source: The Fall of Arthur
“Guinevere has been done quite a few times, especially as a mature young woman, who either is the damsel in distress or the warrior, strong-willed woman. Chris wanted a variety of things in this Guinevere. He predominately wanted her to be real and natural, and make mistakes and be passionate, and be the feisty young girl, but then also completely naive, innocent and ignorant, at the same time.”
“Guinevere is just head over heels and doesn't know how to handle these new emotions that she's feeling, as a young woman. Unfortunately, she can't reign it all in, all the time. And, even though she tries to do the right thing and be the good girlfriend and have her morals, she slips up a little bit.”
“Guinevere is not the Morgan type, where she's sultry and she knows she has this incredible female energy that she can use and utilize, and she's not necessarily used to having this power over men.”
“Guinevere loved Arthur until she met Lancelot. Do you not agree that it is possible to love one person but encounter another whose very soul speaks to you?”
Source: Dracula in Love
“GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.”
“Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.”
“Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.”
“Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.”
“Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole”
“Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin”
“Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.”
“Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.”
“Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.”