Moving The Goalposts Quotes & Sayings

You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!"
"And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he
turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed. — Judith McNaught

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter" — Christopher Peterson

It's one of those jobs where you go, 'Oh no, I've got to play Alfred Hitchcock. I have to play him even though I know what this is going to involve.' — Toby Jones

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there. — Clare Boothe Luce

You and I are streaming data engines. — Jeff Hawkins

Humanity's special place in the cosmos is one of abandoned claims and moving goalposts. — Frans De Waal

If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen. — Marshall Ganz

I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as bleak. Namely, that it is a meaningless place devoid of deity.
However I'm unwilling simply to repeat the old arguments of the past when, in fact, God is a moving target and is taking all sorts of new shapes and forms. The arguments used against the long bow are not particularly useful when debating nuclear weapons, and the simple arguments against the old model gods are not sufficient when dealing with the likes of Davies et al.
For example, the notion that God didn't exist, doesn't exist but may come into existence through the spread of consciousness throughout the universe is too clever to be pooh-poohed along Bertrand Russell lines. And if I had the time I could give you half a dozen other scientific theologies that will need snappier footwork from the atheist of the future. — Phillip Adams

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism. — Amanda Peet

The Social Justice Warrior is best regarded as a sort of unpaid amateur propagandist. SJWs are clearly not insane, as their observable discomfort with the more troubling and problematic aspects of reality suffices to demonstrate that they are able to distinguish between that which is real and that which is not. They are also not sociopathic because they are herd animals who are often willing to lie in the perceived interest of the herd-defined narrative, not only in their own immediate interest. Also unlike sociopaths, they are seldom inclined to deny previous statements when caught out but instead tend to respond by moving the goalposts, abruptly falling silent, or otherwise ending the conversation. — Vox Day

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business. — Benjamin Tucker

For my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated. — Ellen Glasgow

I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game. — Martin Henderson

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful. — David Bayles

But all life is a symphony of successive losses. You lose your youth, your parents, your loves, your friends, your comforts, your health, and finally your life. To deny loss is to lose it all anyway and to lose, in addition, your self-possession and your peace of mind — Isaac Asimov