Goedhart Device Quotes & Sayings

I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB. — Nicki Minaj

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. — Henry David Thoreau

I love being home at Christmastime. — Ashley Tisdale

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone. — Loren Eiseley

Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's like a field - if it's not cared for, the weeds will take over. But if you tend it, water and feed the seeds, you will read a bountiful harvest. Serbs are lazy, we lack discipline and have no capacity for self-criticism." With Their Backs to the World — Asne Seierstad

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing. — Matt Groening

The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards. — Richard M. Nixon

How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.' — Bernard Malamud

The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire. — James Tiptree Jr.

All memories soften with age, and the good ones are also the most perishable ( ... ) conjured up till they faded to nothing. Like cave paintings by candlelight, she could only glimpse them now in the dark from the corner of her eye. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

Most people lived under the illusion that they were in control of their lives, but that wasn't completely true. Yeah, you could decide what to have for breakfast and what to wear and all those little things, but as soon as you stepped out into the world, you were pretty much at the mercy of everyone else around you, and all you could do was hope that if they were having a bad day, they wouldn't decide to take it out on you. — Nicholas Sparks

For more than two decades I have tried, honestly and respectfully, to walk the difficult line between the world of Native America and the world of those of us whose people came, willingly or otherwise, to these American shores. I have done this because I believe that we, as Americans, are poorly served by our willful avoidance of the true facts of our national experience, and also because I believe that the lives and ways of the Native American peoples have much to teach us all. It — Kent Nerburn

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. — Gregg Easterbrook