Gonestraw Quotes & Sayings

It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction. — Lance Armstrong

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again. — Athol Fugard

Why do adults have to diminish everything by feeling they need to end meetings with a false positive? It's so selfish. They say it not because they believe it, but because it helps them feel some kind of accomplishment when they walk away. Like they've done their job. But what do they leave behind?
It's like when teachers tell Tyler that he should be a lawyer because he's good at arguing, but meanwhile he can't pass grade nine. No one wants to say he's stupid, or that he's probably going to end up in jail like his brother, so they fill his head with these stupid dreams until he's eighteen, with no credits and totally messed up for life. I say, tell the truth, squash the dream, and stop with the second chances. — Lesley Anne Cowan

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now. — Dominic Cooper

To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,
they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense. — Anna Brownell Jameson

The gift of song is just like ... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal. — Charles King

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation. — Archibald Alexander Hodge

We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream. — Carsten Jensen

For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration. — Alanis Morissette

At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it. — Philip Slater

What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap. — Casey James

Motivation is about feeling - determined, enthusiastic, frenzied, even angry - and is therefore fickle and unreliable. You can't count on it being there. Consistency, however, is about doing. Consistency isn't something that you need to wind up like a coiled spring every morning. You don't need to plug it in and recharge it every few hours. It is that steady yet relentless journey to an end. It doesn't require profound thought. You quite literally just effing do it. — Michelle Bridges

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one. — Sara Paretsky

Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it. — Jodi Picoult