Goes Quotes

Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.

The rose goes on the front, big guy.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

Time goes on even when we do not.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.

No matter what you think-life goes on and the world still turns and the universe has its own story. The most we can do is plan anyway, but understand, be humbled by things greater than ourselves.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.

I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

I have always been curious about other people. I wonder what goes on in their minds, whether they are good, or bad and I wonder about their lives.

If a thing can't go on forever, it will eventually stop.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.

If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Although motivation comes and goes, you can always rely on your will.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.