Bamboulas Quotes & Sayings

Punishments for mistakes in life which initially seem to be hunters, later seem to be real teachers. — Prateek Gupta

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. — Edmund Burke

Wait till it's my turn to tell the story! They'll be like 'Bear who? — T.J. Klune

Words, when they've been captured and imprisoned on paper, become a barrier against the world, one best left unerected. Everything that happens is fluid, changeable. After they've passed, events are only as your memory makes them, and they shift shapes over time. Writing a thing down fixes it in place as surely as a rattlesnake skin strippd from the meat and stretched and tacked to a barn wall. Every bit as stationary, and every bit as false to the original thing. Flat and still and harmless. — Charles Frazier

Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, I don't read much but I think a lot — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him. — Theodore Roosevelt

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition. — Mark Leyner

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side. — Don Johnson

The carved stone sign in front read Building C.
Imaginative title, Langdon thought — Dan Brown

This is the moment behind which I could forget every other moment that has passed. — Britt Ekland

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort. — Henry James

I would prefer to have gum on my face than own up to the fact that I accidentally got gum on my face. And of course one sentence out of every ten that comes from my mouth is probably not one hundred percent true. — Alicia Thompson