Goated Quotes & Sayings

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings. — Tupac Shakur

Dustin Wax says it well: No matter how organized you are, how together your system is, how careful you are about processing your inbox, making a task list, and working your calendar, if you don't stop every now and again to look at the "big picture," you're going to get overwhelmed. You end up simply responding to what's thrown at you, instead of proactively creating the conditions of your life.16 Find a time for your weekly review, add it to your calendar, and commit to doing it every week. I really can't over-emphasize the importance of this discipline. — Tim Challies

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions. — Condoleezza Rice

Do not wait and hope to be discovered ... make yourself so you cannot be denied! — Jamie McCall

Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to whom it brings correlative pain. — Bertrand Russell

Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step. — Mary N. Cook

When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world. — Dave McKean

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day. — Alice Childress

Labor Day. We could hear their bellow and grind from the Route 19 overpass. Below, the river gleamed like a flaw in metal. Leaving the parking lot behind, we billy-goated down the fisherman's trail, one by one, the way all mountain people do. Loud clumps of bees clustered in the fireweed and boneset, and the trail underfoot crunched with cans, condom wrappers, worm containers. A half-buried coal bucket rose from the dirt with a galvanized grin. The laurel hell wove itself into a tunnel, hazy with gnats. There, a busted railroad spike. The smell of river water filled our noses. — Matthew Neill Null

'Princess' is a good word, as is 'girlish', 'pixie-like' and all these other things. I personally find it a bit boring, it's all been done before. The amount of times you read reviews of bands and it's an all-girl four-piece, and they talk about what the women are wearing ... you'll never read a review that's like: "Male singer Thom Yorke, who was dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans ... " You would never read that about a man. — Lauren Mayberry

President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness. — Niall Ferguson

The sensation of being so close to another human being with whom I had not one single sensation in common left me speechless. — Elaine Dundy

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself. — Leo Tolstoy