Top 100 Gregory Quotes
#2. It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
Gregory Maguire
#3. A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.
Dick Gregory
#4. As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.
Gregory Hines
#5. Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
Gregory Bateson
#7. I don't want to help, I want to hinder. I adore your hair, I like to see it loose.
Philippa Gregory
#9. Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way. Most of the time, suffering is also a test of our love for God.
Gregory David Roberts
#10. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.
Gregory Benford
#11. I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.
Philippa Gregory
#12. Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.
Gregory Maguire
#13. Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.
Gregory Harrison
#14. And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.
Pope Gregory I
#15. And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
Gregory Maguire
#16. The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
Gregory Corso
#17. In your country the munitions makers ride in their limousines and prepare their wars, while the workers cannot afford new shoes.
Gregory Benford
#18. Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.
Pope Gregory I
#21. [Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore "holy" wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry.
Gregory A. Boyd
#22. When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
Lady Gregory
#23. When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
Philippa Gregory
#24. We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
Gregory Maguire
#25. Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.
Gregory Maguire
#26. We are the next thing the Time Dragon is dreaming, and nothing to be done about it.
Gregory Maguire
#27. Gregory: Well, Dane, you could share your impression with my alma mater instead.
Dane: It's a challenge.
Gregory: Glad to hear that hasn't changed. And which part do you find the most challenging?
Dane: Living up to your reputation.
Anne Osterlund
#28. The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
Gregory David Roberts
#29. Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them.
Gregory Maguire
#30. It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?
Philippa Gregory
#31. There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
Dick Gregory
#32. And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool can be jumped up, but a fool can also be thrown down; and who is going to catch me then?
Philippa Gregory
#33. It is impossible that one who has turned to the world and feels its anxieties, and engages his heart in the wish to please men, can fulfill that first and great commandment of the Master, 'You shall love God with all your heart and with all your strength' (Mt. 22:37).
Gregory Of Nyssa
#34. No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
Gregory Benford
#35. She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
Gregory Maguire
#36. The doctrine of the Trinity simply states that God fully exists in three personally distinct ways.
Gregory A. Boyd
#37. Such silly things, children - and so embarrassing - because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something.
Gregory Maguire
#38. But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.
Gregory David Roberts
#39. I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.
Dick Gregory
#40. Go with the knowledge that I will think of you every time I lift your boy from his bed, every time I kneel for my prayers, every time I order my horse, every hour of every day.
Philippa Gregory
#41. Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
Gregory David Roberts
#42. Stinging words! You re critical of everyone," observes Iris. "Oh, not everyone," says Clara in an offhand manner. "Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.
Gregory Maguire
#43. When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.
Gregory Rabassa
#44. The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.
Gregory Benford
#45. If you were enjoying a festive dinner at a friend's house and found a dead cockroach in your salad, what would you do?
Gregory Stock
#46. Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name
Gregory Benford
#47. And my heart was as clean and hungry for promises as a monsoon morning in the gardens of Malabar.
Gregory David Roberts
#48. The last light with any real warmth had been at home, long ago, in a place and a time that no longer existed, with people whose names he didn't say even inside his own mind.
Gregory Maguire
#49. Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
Gregory Maguire
#50. He wanted to come along, said the one in the corner, the only one who hadn't yet tried to kill Phillip. Phillip decided he liked this one best, especially when he wrapped his hand around Gregory's forearm to prevent the younger man from launching himself at Eloise. Which,
Julia Quinn
#51. Celebrate your life now, as it unfolds.
Turn away from judgement and negative theories about your worth, your potential, and your destiny. See what you already have.
Danny Gregory
#52. Love must always start free - but its goal is to become unfree. To be unable not to love is the highest form of freedom in love.
Gregory A. Boyd
#53. When a scarecrow blows apart in a gale wind, the farmer just props up another one. It's the job to be done that's important, not who does it.
Gregory Maguire
#55. I need that printer," I said. "And the precursor
Daryl Gregory
#56. When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.
Gregory Benford
#57. The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
Dick Gregory
#58. Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#59. As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Lady Gregory
#62. My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.
Gregory Crewdson
#63. Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.
Gregory Maguire
#64. All my pictures are very voyeuristic, but ultimately I'm looking at what lurks in my own interior. I make photographs because I want to answer the question of what propels me to do the things that I do. But that always remains a mystery.
Gregory Crewdson
#65. I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.
Gregory Peck
#67. Everybody needs to grow up and leave home sometimes. But sometimes home doesn't like it.
Gregory Maguire
#68. The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.
Pope Gregory I
#69. And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time ... And did she ever come out? ... Not yet.
Gregory Maguire
#70. A parcel
taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will
is all that I am. A vessel, for the bearing of sons, for one nobleman or another: it hardly matters who.
Philippa Gregory
#71. When have we required anything of you? Except to survive?
Gregory Maguire
#72. What is it?" she asked.
"I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?"
"I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that."
"Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?
Gregory David Roberts
#73. Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
Gregory Maguire
#76. I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.
Gregory Harrison
#77. Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.
Gregory Miller
#78. Not only have past processes made us what we are-"modern" or "postmodern" selves, rather than "medieval" or "early modern" selves-but by explaining them we both account for and implicitly justify present realities.
Brad S. Gregory
#79. Lot of talky-talk in there, they had to open the windows to let the words out,
Gregory Maguire
#80. Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
Dick Gregory
#81. I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.
Gregory Colbert
#83. Miss Gregory took nearly everything. Her clothes. New girls don't have the privilege of wearing their own clothes. Her books. Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare? Much too stimulating. No wonder you have Ideas. Certainly, you don't wish to become a bluestocking!
Suzanne Lazear
#84. Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
Dick Gregory
#85. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.
Gregory David Roberts
#86. It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.
Gregory David Roberts
#87. Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
Gregory David Roberts
#88. I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Gregory Maguire
#89. We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, don't you find?
Gregory David Roberts
#90. The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.
Colin Callender
#91. Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.
Gregory Pardlo
#92. "I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".
Gregory Palamas
#93. Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible to look at much larger structures with much smaller crystals.
Gregory Petsko
#94. The eye is always drawn to light, but shadows have more to say.
Gregory Maguire
#95. the greatest miracle of omnipotence was in creating beings who had the potential to resist it.2 2.
Gregory A. Boyd
#96. So - if the oldest memories could contaminate one another, could prove impossible - what good was memory at al?
Gregory Maguire
#97. (Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
Gregory Benford
#98. One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.
Gregory Maguire
#99. My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.
Mary-Louise Parker
#100. Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men, Khader said to me once. I wasn't sure if that was true, or if he simply wanted it to be true, but I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor.
Gregory David Roberts
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