Top 28 Quotes About Goalposts
#1. Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.
Simon Weston
#2. Blame someone else, that's always your first instinct. And if you can't blame someone else, then start claiming the problem isn't a problem anyway. Rewrite the rules, shift the goalposts.
Julian Barnes
#3. "Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"
Christopher Peterson
#4. Humanity's special place in the cosmos is one of abandoned claims and moving goalposts.
Frans De Waal
#6. In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
Arnold H. Glasow
#7. It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
Shawn Achor
#8. There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
Hamish Bowles
#9. The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
Woody Hayes
#10. I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.
Martin Henderson
#11. What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts?
(after 0-0 draw at Anfield)
Bill Shankly
#12. [A Bugatti Veyron is] quite the most stunning piece of automotive engineering ever created ... At a stroke then, the Veyron has rendered everything I've ever said about any other car obsolete. It's rewritten the rule book, moved the goalposts and in the process, given Mother Nature a bloody nose.
Jeremy Clarkson
#13. You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.
Peter Greenaway
#14. Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
#15. For interests that are vital to the U.S. - that is, essential for our survival and wellbeing - the U.S. should be prepared to use military force - including unilaterally, if necessary.
Graham T. Allison
#17. I am a cold man. Any happiness or warmth I've felt died when Jax tried to take his life. Until you." His ragged breath gusts over my cheek. "You are my warmth.
Kristen Callihan
#18. Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum.
Alex Comfort
#20. Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say ... that I have, of course.
Stieg Larsson
#21. I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
Nnedi Okorafor
#23. Creepy is being attached to an outcome. If you approach someone with the goal of sex, and hten find thins not going in that direction, you may try to steer things back to sex. This is creepy.
Allison Moon
#24. It is a challenge to believe that there was ever a time that airline food was exciting, when stewardesses were happy to see you, when flying was such an occasion that you wore your finest clothes. I
Bill Bryson
#25. Nobody needs to worry whether or not I've been tested.
Carly Fiorina
#27. It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
Helena Blavatsky
#28. Just as you and I speak by forming words, the natural, private discourse of the Sanza twins appears to consist entirely of farts and savage beatings. What
Scott Lynch
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