Goofed Around Quotes & Sayings

In the end it seems we're just toys, easy to break and hard to mend. — Mark Lawrence

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Ugly and futile: lean neck and thick hair and a stain of ink, a snail's bed. Yet someone had loved him, borne him in her arms and in her heart. But for her the race of the world would have trampled him underfoot, a squashed boneless snail. She had loved his weak watery blood drained from her own. Was that then real? The only true thing in life? His mother's prostrate body the fiery Columbanus in holy zeal bestrode. She was no more: the trembling skeleton of a twig burnt in the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes. She had saved him from being trampled underfoot and had gone, scarcely having been. A poor soul gone to heaven: and on a heath beneath winking stars a fox, red reek of rapine in his fur, with merciless bright eyes scraped in the earth, listened, scraped up the earth, listened, scraped and scraped. — James Joyce

Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance. — George Washington

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top. — James Reston

When things are bad, be thankful...they are not as bad as they could be. — Dixie Waters

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. — Rem Koolhaas

Bill's tongue had started at Cirocco's toes and was now exploring her left ear. She liked that. It had been a memorable journey. — John Varley

Life is the stuff of miracles. — A.D. Posey

When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun. — Maisie Williams

This is where any sensible person pulls together the remnants of their self-respect, announces that they deserve more, and walks off to find someone who can give them a whole self, not snatched lunchtimes and haunted, empty evenings. — Jojo Moyes

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord. — Rainer Maria Rilke