Goedert Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to be the best in the world every time you go out there. You just have to be better than one guy. — Andre Agassi

We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God's teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father's doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21). — Sam Harris

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator. — Conrad Black

We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the dark ocean on whose rolling waves we toss for a brief hour; all the loneliness of humanity amid hostile forces is concentrated on the individual soul, which must struggle alone, with what of courage it can command, against the whole weight of a universe that cares nothing for its hopes and fears. Victory, in this struggle with the powers of darkness, is the true baptism into the glorious company of heroes, the true initiation into the overmastering beauty of human existence. — Bertrand Russell

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny. — Lita Ford

I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given. — Tom Drury

They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were uncut. — Haruki Murakami

Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives. — Steve Jobs

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom ... is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. — H.L. Mencken

There are no black-and-whites' is itself a black-and-white statement. — Weston Kathman

Because you know I'm
All about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble. — Meghan Trainor

People who have been there forever, left to their own devices, are rarely in the best position to design the future. It's those who consciously listen to the constituents of the future who can understand which direction to move in. — Crystal Kadakia

I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything. — Dwight Henry