Boanson Quotes & Sayings

Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine. How could it be, then, that I did not like her much the better of the two? — Charles Dickens

Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude. — Epictetus

Attitude is your number one weapon against mediocrity. — Angela Lynne Craig

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. — Marian Wright Edelman

I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me. — Nas

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things. — Christopher Ricks

Punctuality is the soul of business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

He never suspected that in so doing, he was crossing his Rubicon. — Jon Krakauer

One might well ask at this point why it should be necessary for a person to be in contact with his or her historical-spiritual roots. In Zurich we have the opportunity to analyze many Americans who come to the Jung Institute and thus to observe the symptoms and results of a hiatus in culture (emigration of their forebears) and a loss of roots. In that case we are dealing with people whose consciousness is structured similarly to ours; but when we bore into the depths, we find something that resembles a gap in the steps - no continuity! A cultivated white man - and beneath that a primitive shadow, of which the — Marie-Louise Von Franz

Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit. — J. Sidlow Baxter

One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen. — Lemony Snicket

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others. — Rob Thurman