Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.
Elizabeth Goudge
Quotes to Explore
-
My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
Cam
-
In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
Kate Christensen
-
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
Cam Newton
-
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson
-
I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
Barry Eisler
-
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch
-
Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
Barbara W. Tuchman
-
Quoyle with regards to Petal, his wife, 'There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering...In another time, in another sex, she would have been Genghis Khan.
Annie Proulx
-
Quoyle, you got any maritime connections?' 'My grandfather was a sealer.' 'Jesus. You always come out at me out of left field.
Annie Proulx
-
Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.
Alan Coren
-
She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.
Anthony Burgess
-
(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.)
Andy Warhol
-
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
-
Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge of the world to fill in the blanks.
Daniel Levitin
-
The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
Bonnie Hammer
-
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.
William Hazlitt
-
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
Freya Stark
-
Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.
Elizabeth Goudge
