Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

Cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Mother

• Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • School
  • Couple
  • Hurt

• You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Done
  • Think
  • Gold

• I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Everybody
  • Restaurant

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Money
  • Know
  • Position

• I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • For Him

• Language is the tool of the tools.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Language
  • Tool

• Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce.

  

  Alvin Martin
  • Done
  • Job
  • Mourinho

• Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• Not just a benchmark in my career, but a benchmark in my life.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Life
  • Career
  • Benchmark

• Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

  

  Aristotle
  • Spring
  • Laws
  • Supreme

• The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Men
  • Together
  • Drink

• Boldness be my friend.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Friends
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

  

  Pope Gregory VII
  • Mean
  • Pride
  • Kings

• Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Existence

• We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hit
  • Wonders
  • Few

• Cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Price
  • Cowardice
  • Paying