Goodline Quotes & Sayings

When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good! — Carl R. Rogers

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings. — Oskar Schindler

It is kind of nice to have a common purpose. — Paul Wolfowitz

system that enabled him to sleep in clean sheets every night without the trouble of bed changing. He'd been proposing the system to Sarah for years, but she was so set in her ways. What he did was strip the mattress of all linens, replacing them with a giant sort of envelope made from one of the seven sheets he had folded and stitched together on the sewing machine. He thought of this invention as a Macon Leary Body Bag. A body bag required no tucking in, was unmussable, easily changeable, and the perfect weight for summer nights. — Anne Tyler

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister. — Adam Giles

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction. — Paul Theroux

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond. — Robert Schumann

Everyone lies. Or they have amnesia. — Natalie Shell

Everything is humorous," said Shorty, "except your own death. But other people will laugh. — Joe R. Lansdale

Von Neumann, by contrast, wore a three-piece suit at almost all times, including on a donkey ride down the Grand Canyon; even as a student he was so well dressed that, upon first meeting him, the mathematician David Hilbert reportedly had but one question: Who is his tailor?45 — Walter Isaacson

That best academy, a mother's knee. — James Russell Lowell

There is a quasi-scientific fable that if you
can get a frog to sit quietly in a saucepan of cold water, and if you then
raise the temperature of the water very slowly and smoothly so that there
is no moment marked to be the moment at which the frog should jump,
he will never jump. He will get boiled. Is the human species changing
its own environment with slowly increasing pollution and rotting its
mind with slowly deteriorating religion and education in such a saucepan? — Gregory Bateson

It is a lot harder to put something back together than to keep it running. — Joy Browne