I. J. Good Quotes

There's always someone we'd love to kill, the trick is to make it not look like an accident

I like gross generalizations...I also like disgusting specifics!

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

All those windows, and not a cat in them. All that light to bask in, wasted.

If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose.

Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.'Her name is Annie.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy

The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce pas'?

Nobody knows anything when they are in their midtwenties.

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing

I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results.

Reality always wins.

Your time is your life.

Time investment is the NEW Time Management.

The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion.

Elsewhere is within

When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to the blessing of pruning, knowing that the change that will take place in us, will take us places.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.

Kyle, you are a mellow dude...You can’t be with an agitator. And that’s what she is. An agitator. She’s a Jackson Pollock and you’re a Thomas Kinkade.

When things in the country are in the pits, start a war with somebody.

Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe

Don’t kill yourself when your scorching sun intensifies

He leaned back in his seat throwing his hands behind his head

True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner

Shitty values involve tangible external goals outside of our control. Better values are process-oriented.

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

I write for ghosts

Earthly things will pass away. They will pass away and what will be left is my Savior.

- You gave me a dead frog for my birthday!- To remind you we all die and end up rotting underground eaten by maggots so we should enjoy our birthdays while we have them. I found it thoughtful.

You should see the murderous stares I get on the street. Though I think that has less to do with seeing a man carrying a purse and more to do with paisley. Paisley makes everyone cranky.

You turned your head to the side. Faced me. Your eyes never left mine, I read them with ease. You said nothing to them, yet everything to me. I nodded.But only when no one was watching.

Once I make a decision, I stick to it.

Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail

Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season

Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould

An institution needs more than one person to survive.

The truth is a community is as big or as small as your heart lets it be.

Everyone's dying, Milcah. Some people are just dying sooner than others.

He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls.

Cats have been all over the Internet for many years. This makes total sense, as they seem to spend half their lives trying to stand and sit on the keyboards of our laptops.

Some were drawn towards displays of physical showboating, when it came to cats, while others preferred subtle intellectual stimulation.

So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about.

Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.