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Gaiman, Neil.

Fairy tales, as G. K. Chesterton once said, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.

Smoke and Mirrors (HP390, 1998), p. 2.

CHESTERTON, G. K.; DRAGONS; FAIRY TALES; TRUTH; HOPE

20000823

Gandhi.

Rationalists are admirible beings.  Rationalism is a hideous monster it claims for itself omnipotence.  Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone, believing it to be God.

in "Reflections," Christianity Today, (January 15, 1990), p. 34.

IDOLATRY; OMNIPOTENCE; RATIONALISM - OMNIPOTENCE

19900114

Gauguin, Paul.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

Quoted in:  Hope, Augustine, & Walch, Margaret.  The Color Compendium (FIU Green Lib., van Nostrand, 1990), p. 143.

ARTIST'S VIEW; NATURE - COLORS; TREES - COLORS; COLOR

19960308

Gennaro, Richard de.

I have always been an optimist about the future of libraries and I still am, but I believe librarians are goin to have to work harder and smarter if we are going to make it into the 21st century. The greatest challenge facing library leaders in the next decade is not to implement new technology, it is to implement new entrepreneurically oriented management structures and cultures in our ailing industrial-age libraries.

"Technology & Access in an Enterprise Society,"

in:  Library Journal (October 1, 1989), p. 43.

LIBRARIES - 1990S; LIBRARIES - CHANGE; LIBRARIES - MANAGMENT

19900110

Gibran, Kahlil.

Those writers are telling the truth, because I do not love man-made laws and I abhor the traditions that our ancestors left us.  This hatred is the fruit of my love for the sacred and spiritual kindness which should be the source of every law upon the earth, for kindness is the shadow of God in man.

Kahlil Gibrarn: A Self-Portrait. (FIUL, Citadel Press, 1959), p. 14.

GOD; KINDNESS; LAWS; SPIRITUAL VALUES; TRADITION

19870327

The soul is a heavenly flower that canot live in the shade, but thorns can live everywhere.

Letter to Yousif Howayek, 1911,

In:  Kahlil Gibrarn: A Self-Portrait. (FIUL, Citadel Press, 1959), p. 26.

FLOWERS; MAN; SHADE; SOULS; THORNS

19870300

And let your best be for your friend.
   If he must know the ebb of your tide,
let him know its flood also.
   For what is your friend that you should
seek him with hours to kill?
   Seek him always with hours to live.
   For it is his to fill your need, but not
your emptiness.

The Prophet (HI104, ), p. 67.

FRIENDSHIP

19800113

Do not give to genius, but take from him!  Thus only shall you be honoring him.

The Voice of the Master ( , ), p. 21.

GENIUS; HONOR

19740000

Gleick, James.

Shallow ideas can be assimilated; ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

Chaos.  (HQ470, Scientific American, 2004), p. 38.

COSMOLOGY; HOSTILITY; IDEAS; NEWNESS; REORGANIZATION; SIMPLICITY

20070401

...trends in nature are real, but they can vanish as quickly as they come.

Chaos.  (HQ470, Scientific American, 2004), p. 94.

NATURE; STATISTICS; TRENDS

20070420

A fractal curve implies an organizing structure that lies hidden among the hideous complication of such shapes.

Chaos.  (HQ470, Scientific American, 2004), p. 114.

CURVES; FORMS; FRACTALS; ORGANIZATION; STRUCTURE

20070509

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

in:  Decision (Jan., 1983), p. ?.

CHARACTER; LAUGHTER

19830100

Goldberg, Isaac.

Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.

The Reflex;

in: DiGaetani, John L., et al.  Writing Out Loud (FIUGL, Dow Jones Irwin, 1983), p. 50.

DIPLOMACY; POLITENESS

19870526

Golding, William.

In any case, marvelous views don't get writers or painters going.  They just give them an excuse for doing nothing.

The Paper Men (FIUL, Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1984), p. 38.

ARTISTS - INSPIRATIONS; AUTHORS - INSPIRATIONS; DISTRACTIONS - VIEWS; SCENERY - DISTRACTIONS

19841213

Goodkind, Terry.

It seemed that there was no one more glad for peace than those whose job it was to fight for it.

"Debt of Bones," (1998).

in:  Year's Best Fantasy (PQ127, Eos, 2001), p. 485.

PEACE; SOLDIERS; WAR

20021121

Gordon, Cyrus H.

As a result of archaeological discovery and the decipherments, we not only perceive the prehis/tory of the Bible and the classics, but we also see how they towered above their predeccessors and contemporaries.

Forgotten Scripts (1982, HL038), pp. 79-80.

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIBLE; LITERATURE (ANCIENT)--PARALLELS

19880302

Gordon, Ernest.

I interpret this scene as evidence of the end times of a civilization that had once benefited from the Christian world view, one that exalted creation and people, and provided the ideals essential for an authentice education.  I recognize that civilization does not create Christians.  However, the community of faith created and still creates the civility that is evidence of civilization.

"Is Baer Right?"

in:  Christianity Today (Feb. 17, 1984), p.8.

CHRISTIANITY AND CIVILIZATION; CIVILITY; CIVILIZATION; EDUCATION

19840200

Grant, W. Wayne.

Depending upon God for strength and insight, we are not prisoners of the past.  Ours is a future of grace.

Growing Parents Growing Children (Convention Pr., 1977), p. 21.

CHRISTIANS AND THE PAST; FUTURE; GRACE

19770400

Gray, Jack.

To have a great encounter with God and to come away enamored with the experience rather than with God is sophisticated idolatry.... We are not to go out as an evangel of our gift or our experience, but to be an evangel for God.

in:  MacGorman, Jack W.  The Gifts of the Spirit (HJ064, 1974), p. 118.

EXPERIENCE, SPIRITUAL; GOD; IDOLATRY; WITNESS; WORSHIP

19890319

Grayson, A. Kirk, and Redford, Donald B., eds.

Where a literature exists there is true civilization.

Papyrus and Tablet (P-H, 1973 ), p. vi.

CIVILIZATION; LITERATURE

19940622

Green, Miranda.

Both the Greeks and the Romans were, to an extent, obsessed with the nature of appearance.  Thus art had an imitative rather than an interpretative and symbolic role; the gods were depicted as close to life as possible.... By contrast, the Celts were not bound by the rigidities of 'mimesis' or realistic copying. In pre-Roman La Tene phases, human and animal forms were subservient to overall artistic designs, which were essentially geometric, abstract, with pattern the main preoccupation.

Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art (FIU, 1989), p. 214.

APPEARANCES; ART - ROMANS; ART - CELTS; ART, INTERPRETIVE; ART, IMITATIVE; INTERPRETATIONS; ROMANS - REALISM; CELTS - ABSTRACTION

19940622

Both the Machas and the Morrigna were at the same time / regarded as one entity with three aspects and with three identities.

Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art (FIU, 1989), pp. 188-189.

CELTS - TRIPLISM; TRIPLISM; TRINITIES

19940613

Greene, Graham.

"You should dream more, Mr Wormold.  Reality in our century is not something to be faced."

Spoken by Dr. Hasselbacher in:

Our Man in Havana (HK130, Collected ed., Viking, 1981 [1958]), p. 5.

INSANITY; OBEDIENCE

19921000

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

Our Man in Havana (HK130, 19??), p. 24.

INSANITY; OBEDIENCE

19921000

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust.  You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked.  You lost remembrance of pain through inflicting it.

Our Man in Havana (HK130, 19??), p. 29.

CHILDHOODS; JOKES; MISTRUST; PAIN

19921000

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

Our Man in Havana (HK130, 19??), p. 165.

CHANGE; SHOCKS, SOCIAL

19921000

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people.  Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like the pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

Our Man in Havana (HK130, 19??), p. 202.

CITIES; NEIGHBORHOODS; POPULATIONS

19921000

It wasn't a beautiful face--that was the trouble.  It was a face to live with, day in, day out.  A face for wear.

The Third Man (Heinemann, 1958, 1950), p. 72.

APPEARANCE; BEAUTY

19830000

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Spoken by Aunt Augusta.

Travels with My Aunt.  (HM085,  , 1969), p. 94.

GENERALIZATIONS; MEANING; QUOTATIONS

19880206

Greenfield, Meg.

Reagan is a genius at mobilizing public sentiments and acting out national...fantasies.

"The Gilded Age of Ceremony,"

In:  Newsweek (July 14, 1986), p. 76.

FANTASIES; MYTHS, NATIONAL; POLITICAL PERSONS; PRESIDENTS, U.S.; PUBLIC OPINION; REAGAN, RONALD

19860710

Grigorenko, Petro G.

Devotion to the leader was stressed by every political worker.  Political workers began everything they did by praising the "leader" just as a true religious believer begins everything with a prayer.

Memoirs (HK203, Norton, 1982), p. 184.

BELIEVERS; DEVOTION; POLITICAL WORKERS; PRAISES; PRAYERS

19830600

This experience showed me that seemingly decent people are not averse to tripping up idealists--and the idealist are always the losers.

Memoirs (HK203, Norton, 1982), p. 215.

IDEALISTS

19830600

Grimond, John.

So carpe diem.  Those who can look back only in anger would do better not to look back at all.

"It'll Seem Like Only Yesterday,"

In:  The World in 2007.  (The Economist, 2007), p. 22.

ANGER; CARPE DIEM; HISTORY; REMEMBERING; TODAY, THE PRESENT TIME

20070225

Gruchow, Paul.

Of these tasks the most interesting is the exercise of memory, since it is the least practiced in our culture.

"Forward,"

In:  Crosby, Cindy. By Willoway Brook (HQ279, Paraclete Pr., 2003), p. xi.

MEMORY

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