Goose Girls Quotes & Sayings

Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living. — Elisabeth Elliot

I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. — Tan Twan Eng

I don't like disappointing people. Some would say that this is "codependent behavior", which I have discovered is a term that explains how most everyone acts all the time, unless one is a sociopath or a Russian computer that plays chess. — Amy Poehler

I wouldn't change it you know," he said, his breath raising goose bumps on the skin of my neck. "The girls, the other boys, everything we experienced before this moment. Because that was all wrong. And I think we needed to feel what was wrong to know what's right. — Megan Erickson

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities. — Isabella Rossellini

As a boy, he'd always had some elaborate project that had nothing to do with school. On Summit Avenue, alone in his aerie, he drew the stately homes across the street and numbered the many windows and doors, compiling a detailed log of his neighbors' activities. In sixth grade, simultaneously, he kept a diary concerning the girls he liked and a ledger chronicling every penny he made and spent. These secret fascinations led nowhere in the end, were left mysteriously incomplete like the detective novel he patterned after Sherlock Holmes, to be replaced by his next obsession. At Princeton, when he was supposed to be cramming for exams, he wrote a musical. In the army it was a novel. Nothing had changed. He was still that boy, happiest pursuing some goose chase of his own making, and lost without one. — Stewart O'Nan

I will erase every memory of every man you have ever been with, good and bad. — Megan Keith

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world. — Denis Hayes

Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself. — Steve Maraboli

Poor Miss Binney, dressed like Mother Goose, now had the responsibility of sixty-eight boys and girls. — Beverly Cleary

There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave. — Mark Lawrence

Little Britain may truly be called the heart's core of the city; the stronghold of true John Bullism. It is a fragment of London as it was in its better days, with its antiquated folks and fashions. Here flourish in great preservation many of the holiday games and customs of yore. The inhabitants most religiously eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, hot-cross-buns on Good Friday, and roast goose at Michaelmas; they send love-letters on Valentine's Day, burn the pope on the fifth of November, and kiss all the girls under the mistletoe at Christmas. Roast — Washington Irving

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us. — Michel De Montaigne

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best. — Donald Hall

Julia was a tall, ungainly girl, much taller than Gordon, with a thin face and a neck just a little too long - one of those girls who even at their most youthful remind one irresistibly of a goose. — George Orwell

The longest way round is the shortest way home.
(Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons) — C.S. Lewis

bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days. — Jim Bishop