Antwan Goodley Quotes & Sayings

Secrets are like the cancer of families. Like tumors, they grow ever larger, and if they are not removed, they suffocate the mind and spirit, and spawn madness. As long as they remain, they cast a shadow on every truth that is uttered, clouding it, constricting it, disporting it. Secrets hurt the secret keeper as much as the poor souls from whom the secret is kept. And even once the secret is out, its shadow echoes into the future, the remnants of its memory leaving us vigilant and fearful. — Patricia Falvey

You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don't run around naked.'Why?'They just don't. — Renita D'Silva

We should clap or something." Curran said. "She's trying so hard. — Ilona Andrews

Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. — Catherynne M Valente

When asked my advice as I stroll through the town,
"A good lady knows how to take a political assassin down. — Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun — Robert Cormier

You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates? — Joe Arpaio

They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us. — Alice Hoffman

I don't get the point, really," I'd said as we contemplated the plastic-wrapped roses. "Why give a girl something that's supposed to represent love that's only going to wilt and die in a matter of hours?"
Steven laughed and said that was a pretty pessimistic way to view life, and I shrugged.
Then he said, "All the best things are like that, though, Lex, the most beautiful things. Part of the beauty comes from the fact that they're short-lived." He picked up a bouquet of deep-red roses, held it out to me. "These will never be as beautiful as they are at this moment, so we have to enjoy them now."
I stared at him. He scratched the back of his neck, a little red-faced, then gave me a sheepish grin. "Just call me a romantic," he said.
I wanted to say that there were some things in this world, some rare things, that were beautiful and stayed that way. — Cynthia Hand

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. — Henry David Thoreau

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. — Channing Pollock

UCL made provision for women to study science. Skinner told Humphry that a good Fabian should consider his daughters' education as seriously as his sons'. Humphry said that Dorothy - and Griselda - were still only little girls. Hardly, said Skinner, smiling at the two serious young faces. Hardly. They would be young women any moment, he could see. His look made Dorothy feel unexpectedly heated, on her skin, and also inside her. She wriggled a little and sat straighter. Griselda said she didn't think her parents saw any need for her to be educated. Skinner said, it should be enough that she wanted to be educated. — A.S. Byatt

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Evening is the best time in Gentilly. There are not so many trees ... — Walker Percy

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life. — Robbie Williams