Bogfolk Quotes & Sayings

Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin. — Hildegard Of Bingen

A fat old man has disturbed my day, coming to tell me that he has sold my childhood to a museum in Cincinnati. — A.M. Homes

Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls. — Muriel Barbery

The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down. — Evan Meekins

A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from the accumulated past. If you can be unattached to the past every moment, then you are always fresh, young, just born. You pulsate with life and that pulsation gives you immortality. You are immortal, only unaware of the fact. — Rajneesh

The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. Shriveled and drawn like latterday bogfolk, their faces of boiled sheeting, the yellowed palings of their teeth. They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen. — Cormac McCarthy

Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial and persecution that you can stand, and plenty of opportunities to show that you are true to God and his work. This Church has before it many close places through which it will have to pass before the work of God is crowned with victory. The time will come when no man nor woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. Each will have to be guided by the light within himself. If you do not have it, how can you stand? — Heber C. Kimball

There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career. — Eva Longoria

Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been. — Horace Bushnell

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known. — Donna Tartt

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that. — Yuri Milner

The mere fact of her sufferings and adventures made her a priceless possession. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Regrets are born in old age, never in youth. — Beem Weeks

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts. — Will Durant

A rugged but sensitive but tough but loving but horny but smart hero having his way with a protesting but willing but struggling but yielding tempestuous female. — Neal Stephenson