Moving The Goalposts Quotes

#1. Something made out of words...

Matthew Small

#2. Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

Michael Lewis

#3. Bantu Philosophy: People cling to life and are not yet at the stage where they wil fight for the quality of that life. They feel as long as they are surviving, that is enough.

Michela Wrong

#4. The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

Donna Tartt

#5. According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

Luis Gutierrez

#6. The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Judith Martin

#7. From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

Kofi Annan

#8. What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

#9. I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.

Martin Henderson

#10. Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose.

Karen Kingsbury

#11. Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

Tim Curry

#12. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.

Jenny McCarthy

#13. What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.

Michael Cunningham

#14. After the Dark Revolt, where the Obsidians rose in arms against the iron ancestors, the Board of Quality Control debated destroying the entire Color. You know how they gave them religion, stole their technology.

Pierce Brown

#15. This was meant for you. Only you.

K.A. Linde

#16. Humanity's special place in the cosmos is one of abandoned claims and moving goalposts.

Frans De Waal

#17. "Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

Christopher Peterson

#18. For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.

Christopher Hitchens