Goldy Mcjohn Quotes & Sayings

When you act like a nice guy, everyone examines your motives with a microscope. When you act like a conscienceless louse, they generally take you at face value. — Donald Hamilton

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. — Brad Dourif

Caleb touched the brim of his hat and nodded an acknowledgment to Rupert, then spoke to Lily in the clipped, authoritative tone she'd heard him use with his soldiers. "We'll leave for the fort tomorrow," he announced. "You may do whatever you please, Major," Lily responded coldly, "but I'm staying here. I have business to attend to." "Shall I explain to your brother why I have a claim on you?" Caleb asked, his tone a mockery of indulgence. Lily felt her face go hot as a stove stoked for cooking. Rupert looked pleasantly baffled. "Did I miss something here?" Caleb relented just in time to save himself from a kick to the shins. "Tomorrow," he repeated. And then he excused himself and started to walk away. — Linda Lael Miller

Sometimes we allow pride to keep us running after a man who doesn't want to be captured. — Lisa Marbly-Warir

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about. — Meg Rosoff

My optimism for life carried through my work. — John Dyer

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind. — Kim Stanley Robinson

All who seek you
test you.
And those who find you
bind you to image and gesture.
I would rather sense you
as the earth senses you.
In my ripening
ripens what you are. — Rainer Maria Rilke

A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge. — L.M. Montgomery

When people dress well, they play well. — Wynton Marsalis

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight
this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one
this is business. — Mark Twain

Hearst's papers and magazines" were his intended target and promised his speech would clarify that he abhorred "the whitewash brush quite as much as of mud slinging. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them. — Rachel Cusk

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment. — Jack Kornfield