Gooley Club Quotes & Sayings

Working with others makes us much more than we could ever become alone — John Wooden

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done. — Martin Short

If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature. — Richard Dawkins

No matter how little we think anatomy should matter to one's social and political rights, surely we can't pretend biology doesn't matter in sports. Surely there's a reason we don't let adults play in the t-ball leagues, and a reason most women athletes want their own leagues. — Alice Dreger

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. — Alexander Pope

AND WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR HOGSWATCH, SMALL HUMAN? — Terry Pratchett

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. — Martha Stewart

You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again. — Alan Sillitoe

Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next. — Joseph M. Marshall III

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are. — Rick Scott

I step out of Bourbon Bandits onto the sidewalk of Geary Street and take my place among the zombies and psychopaths. How do I tell the difference? The psychopaths wear suits. The zombies have skin peeling off their faces and reek of rotting teeth and were likely the extras in a movie we were all in but forgot about. — Logan Ryan Smith

meat comes from the supermarket, where it's wrapped in plastic. No guts involved. — Tess Gerritsen

From Alan Lightman's intricate 1993 novel Einstein's Dreams; set in Berne in 1905: With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great-grandparents, great-aunts ... and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own ... Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. — Christopher Hitchens

Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path. Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want. — Elif Shafak