Goodly Company Quotes & Sayings

I wonder if the greatest temptation is self-rejection. Could it be that beneath all the lures to greed, lust, and success rests a great fear of never being enough or not being lovable? — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something. — Carine Roitfeld

If you can smile in the face of uncertainty, you are well trained. — Lodro Rinzler

To become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies America's story, the high drama that is upping and leaving-and the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands. - p. 342 — Philip Roth

A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality. — Theodore L. Cuyler

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport. — Allan Houston

When you break free of your reef and drift with the current, you see that nothing has stayed still except you - everything is different. — Shane Jiraiya Cummings

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see — Christine Upton

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting. — H.L. Mencken

The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,
In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims. — Richard Harris Barham