Goodley Public School Quotes & Sayings

Like a midget at a urinal I was going to have to stay on my toes. — Leslie Nielsen

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already. — Henry David Thoreau

Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it. — Denis Johnson

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you. — Morgan Brittany

Why would you even want to be human? We're fragile. We die."
"You also live. You don't spend every day wondering why you exist,but don't feel real, why you look human, but can't be. You don't do everything you can to be a good person only to have it constantly thrown in your face that you're not a person at all. — Victoria Schwab

In the depths of the human soul ... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things. — Pope John Paul II

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter. — Kate Adie

Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now. — Emily Giffin

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone. — Harvey MacKay