Boetius Quotes & Sayings

How could he be so cruel and still so human? — Leigh Bardugo

To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. — Eckhart Tolle

I love this. I love you, the feel of you, the smell of you, just you, — Mia Sheridan

Real change doesn't come without crisis. Childbirth doesn't come without crisis. I think that's happening with humanity now. Our growth has generated multiple crises ... and these are the contractions that are propelling us into a new world, whether we like it or not, but I think we're going to like it. — Charles Eisenstein

Bill Cosby 18th. — Jonny Fox

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them. — George Eliot

There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way. — Lady Gaga

People seldom recognize opportunity for it comes disguised as hard work. — K. Balachander

A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas."
-Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional) — Ted Bell

Our team has zero; has he got Close Air Support, drones, anything? — Steven Pressfield

Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of ... — Jonathan Safran Foer

As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he has very little ability to discover truth.' And again, 'Without this theory no one can have a correct insight into truth.' And he says also, 'I warn the man who spurns these paths of knowledge that he cannot philosophize correctly.' And Again, 'It is clear that whosoever passes these by, has lost the knowledge of all learning.' — Roger Bacon

By April 1999, the plain was nearly filled, all the way to the foothills. But the fiercely independent residents refused to incorporate. A new town would only impose new rules and new taxes. The 100,000 new arrivals filled one continuous suburb with no town center: no main street, no town hall, town library, or town name. No one was sure what to call it. Littleton is a quiet suburb south of Denver where the massacre did not actually occur. Although the name would grow synonymous with the tragedy, Columbine lies several miles west, across the South Platte River, in a different county with separate schools and law enforcement. The postal system slapped "Littleton" onto a vast tract of seven hundred square miles, stretching way up into the foothills. — Dave Cullen