G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.”
“Gamache could almost see the inevitable horsemen on the hill, above Hazel, snorting and pounding the ground, straining to be released. They brought the end of everything Hazel knew, all that was familiar and predictable. This contained woman was courageously holding off the marauding army of grief, but soon it would break free and sweep down and over her, and nothing familiar would be left standing.”
Source: The Cruelest Month
“Gamache knew people were like homes. Some were cheerful and bright, some gloomy. Some could look good on the outside but feel wretched on the interior. And some of the least attractive homes, from the outside, were kindly and warm inside.
He also knew the first few rooms were for public consumption. It was only in going deeper that he'd find the reality. And finally, inevitably, there was the last room, the one we keep locked, and bolted and barred, even from ourselves. Especially from ourselves.”
Source: The Cruelest Month
“Gamache put his hand on Beauvoir's arm to stop him. 'Clara's in charge. She knows what she's doing.'
'She once ate potpourri thinking it was chips.' said Jean-Guy. 'She took a bath in soup, thinking it was bath salts. She turned a vacuum cleaner into a sculpture. She has no idea what she's doing.'
Gamache smiled. 'At least if it all goes south, we have someone else to blame for once.'
'YOU do,' mumbled Beauvoir, tossing his bag into the back of the van. 'I always blamed you anyway. I'm no further ahead.”
Source: The Long Way Home
“Gamal Abdal Nasser, the nationalist leader of Egypt, was described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as an Egyptian Hitler. Then it carried on like that. Saddam Hussein became Hitler when he was no longer a friend of the West. Then Milosevic became Hitler.”
“Gamaliel regarded me with neither judgment nor pity—a mercy for which I was profoundly grateful.”
Source: My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World
“Gaman. I've fought my whole life against it, but looking back, it's all I know how to do. I used gammon when I saw that first text to Dad when I was twelve. I used gammon with Trish when she got popular and made all those new, popular friends. I used gaman when I had a crush on her. I thought I'd changed when we moved to California and I finally made real friends, finally kissed Jamie, finally started to live a little. I thought I was done with gaman. But I was wrong. I tried to do something about Dad, and I failed. I tried to tell Mom the truth about me, and I chickened out. I tried to take action when I thought Jamie might leave me, and I screwed up. So I've resigned myself to my fate like a good Japanese girl, and I'm doing my best to pull myself together, squelch the complaints, and endure, endure, endure. Gaman. This is what Mom has been training me for since I was born, and it's clearly what I'm best at.”
Source: It's Not Like It's a Secret
“Gaman is a documentary that revealed the four year study experience of a Japanese student who left Japan to study in Australia and then returned home with a foreign qualification”
Source: Gaman A Japanese Students Four Year Study Journey Australia
“Gaman is one of those special words in Japanese that doesn't have an English equivalent. It is the art of perseverance through tough times. It is a part of duty. A sign of growing up. Maturity.”
Source: Tokyo Dreaming
“Gaman was a word rooted in Buddhism that meant "enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity." Ruth had heard her father use it often after they moved to California. And now, after they had endured so much already, here they were, once more forced to gaman.”
Source: Daughter of Moloka'i
“Gamaun is a dainty steed,
Strong, black, and of a noble breed,
Full of fire, and full of bone,
With all his line of fathers known;
Fine his nose, his nostrils thin,
But blown abroad by the pride within;
His mane is like a river flowing,
And his eyes like embers glowing
In the darkness of the night,
And his pace as swift as light.”
“Gambia Airport fees are an integral part of the air travel ecosystem, playing a vital role in sustaining the operations and growth of the airport while facilitating safe and enjoyable journeys for travelers.”
“Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.”
“Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.”
Source: Selected poems
“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“Gamblers get "caught" gambling in one of several ways. One way is to be discovered someplace where the gamblers promised never to go after the last time they were caught. Another is when money is missing and there is no lie big enough to explain how and why this much money is gone.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“Gamblers hide the compulsive gambling so well that the non-gamblers are unaware of it. They may be aware of recreational, affordable gambling, but have no idea that the gambling has gone beyond that. The gamblers use access to family funds, business funds, credit lines and credit cards to gamble and use the love and trust of non-gamblers to their advantage.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings”
“Gambles are the most fun because it's part of being an actor or being a creative person. It's risky only in the vulnerable sense. And then outside of that, no one gets too hurt by it.”
“Gambling addiction is not an addiction to winning money. Problem gamblers’ brains do not release any more dopamine when they win a bet than non-problem gamblers’ brains. The largest difference—when problem gamblers release markedly more dopamine than non-problem gamblers—comes at moments of high uncertainty. These instances provide the rush and the fleeting pleasure/pain equilibrium to which problem gamblers are addicted.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat”
“Gambling, beer and football filled the horizons of their minds.”
“Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.”
“Gambling companies had promised sports betting as a tax revenue bonanza and by converting players from the illegal market, a product that would do little to reshape the total amount spent on gambling. “We’re starting to see policymakers start to really push back on all of the false promises that they were once sold,” Brianne Doura-Schawohl explained.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product”
“Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits”
“Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.”
Source: Peter L. Bernstein Classics Collection: Capital Ideas, Against the Gods, The Power of Gold and Capital Ideas Evolving
“Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.”
“Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.”
“Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those”
“Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers”
“Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn”
“Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.”
“Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.”
Source: The Gambler
“Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.”
“Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers”
“Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.”
“Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.”
Source: The Passion
“Gambling is not about the cards in your hand, but about the choices you make when you hold them.”
“Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.”
Source: Inside Las Vegas
“Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.”
“Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.”
“Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.”
“Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.”
Source: School Days at Rugby
“Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.”
“Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.”
“Gambling rules doesn't work in nuclear war - everyone become looser.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“Gambling suicides are also frequently impulsive. My attempt to find a concrete wall to splatter myself on is, unfortunately, quite common for compulsive gamblers. I've had many conversations with other gamblers who tell the same story — looking for something to smack into on the way home from the bad beat at the casino.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.”
“Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.”