Top 50 Goad Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Goad

#1. Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

#2. My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

#3. Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.

Truman Capote

#4. Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

#5. When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

Marc Morano

#7. Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad

Sivananda

#8. By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time ... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.

Michael Lesy

#9. It was a classic Nixon move: goad an opponent into attacking, then ride a wave of sympathy s you defend your honour.

Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

#10. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

Upton Sinclair

#11. We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.

Rene Char

#12. Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

John Steinbeck

#13. Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

Posidonius

#14. Lies mixed with truth goad the fires of hate.

Stina Leicht

#15. Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.

Lauren Willig

#16. But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

Tobias Wolff

#17. Satire is a good tool for highlighting flaws or short-comings, but it is also a way to goad individuals, groups and governments into improvement, by juxtaposing reality with absurdity and not having a giant chasm in between.

Marietta Rodgers

#18. The elephant goad represents Yama, the god of death and bondage. Ganesha thus acknowledges the life-giving aspect of nature as well as the life-taking aspect of nature.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#19. Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

William Shakespeare

#20. I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the numbers. The average person walks 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. I walk 10,000 steps a day. I have lost a lot of weight as a result.

Roger Ebert

#21. What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.

Piers Anthony

#22. I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.' ... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.

Cynthia Ozick

#23. To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad.

Xenophon

#24. The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs ... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

Mark Twain

#25. A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

Sophocles

#26. Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.

Paul G. Hoffman

#27. The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

Jim Goad

#28. If Jimmy indeed cracked corn and you truly didn't care, why the fuck did you write a song about it? I call bullshit.

Jim Goad

#29. Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.

Jim Goad

#30. Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.

Jim Goad

#31. The fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.

Jim Goad

#32. My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Jim Goad

#33. The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.

Jim Goad

#34. Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

Jim Goad

#35. I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

Jim Goad

#36. Though others may hate you, those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ~ President Richard Nixon

Chester Goad

#37. San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.

Jim Goad

#38. He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

Jim Goad

#39. You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.

Jim Goad

#40. People can be so heartless and dirty.

Jim Goad

#41. Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body.

Jim Goad

#42. They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

Jim Goad

#43. Anyone who hides within the crowd is a coward.

Jim Goad

#44. If I'd been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I'd merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.

Jim Goad