Bogdanoff Dump Quotes & Sayings

Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably. — Roger Rosenblatt

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth. — Theresa Breslin

It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres. — Max Heindel

This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids. — Lois Lowry

How odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.
— Jim Fergus

One of the most stinging criticisms made against Christians is that their minds are narrow and their hearts small. This may not be wholly true, but that such a charge can be made at all is sufficient cause for serious heart searching and prayer. — A.W. Tozer

What do you mean? Grace Brisbane, you do not mean that you're not going back home again. Tell me that this was just because you were momentarily angry at them for grounding you. Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night. But don't tell me you think it's forever! — Maggie Stiefvater

The essential question is not, How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you? — Oprah Winfrey

Never loose hope. Stay strong, you never know what tomorrow brings. — Magith Noohukhan

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds. — Ved Mehta

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own. — Adele Faber

Isn't the point of music to move listeners?"
Mattison smiled. "No. The point of music is to wake listeners up. To break all our ready-made habits."
"And tradition?"
"Real composers make their own. — Richard Powers

But I do not think it necessary to believe that the same God who gave us our senses, our speech, our intellect, would have put aside the use of these, to teach us instead such things as with their help we could find out for ourselves, particularly in the case of these sciences of which there is not the smallest mention in the Scriptures; and, above all, in astronomy, of which so little notice is taken that the names of none of the planets are mentioned. Surely if the intention of the sacred scribes had been to teach the people astronomy, they would not have passed over the subject so completely. — Dava Sobel

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. — Pablo Picasso