Bisland Quotes & Sayings

Seek on high bare trails
Sky-reflecting violets...
Mountain-top jewels — Basho Matsuo

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another. — Barbara Mertz

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?"
"Can't girls seek their fortune?"
"I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune. — Terry Pratchett

Besides, I was thrown by your eyes. The blue of them was so generous, I couldn't quite think of anything else. — Rachel Joyce

Let us not think that because we are less brutal, less violent, less inhuman than our opponents we will carry the day. Brutality, violence and inhumanity have an immense prestige that schoolbooks hide from children, that grown men do not admit, but that everybody bows before. For the opposite virtues to have as much prestige, they must be actively and constantly put into practice. Anyone who is merely incapable of being as brutal, as violent and as inhuman as someone else but who does not practice the opposite virtues, is inferior to that person in both inner strength and prestige, and he will not hold out in such a confrontation.1
Simone Weil — Simone Weil

Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words. — John C. Maxwell

The right is more precious than peace. — Woodrow Wilson

Wherever there are children, there will always be injustice. — Robert Walser

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful. — Tom Brady

Loneliness is a state when you have not yet grown to love yourself enough. — Robert Black

I just think that your private life is private. What I do is obviously public, I get that. I get the fact that people are interested. I'm interested in a lot of people as well. I've just chosen to stay as private as possible. — Derek Jeter

Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life. — Carol Muske-Dukes

I intend that I am learning from my experiences so that I am only repeating the ones that bring me happiness. — Tony Burroughs

What they (Americans) do, they want to be in a hurry. — Henry Chadwick

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America. -Elizabeth Bisland — Matthew Goodman

Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time — Thomas Berry