Bogland Quotes & Sayings

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget, — Brad Meltzer

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. — Walter Russell Mead

Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing. — William James

We're a sleepy nation right now. I want us to be a nation of innovation. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter. — Roberto Bolano

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time. — Aphex Twin

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all. — Henry Fielding

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture. — Edward O. Wilson

I can't imagine everyone on the planet would want to hear something from me. If I thought they'd listen, I'd probably ask them to try to be nicer to each other, to try to be less scared of their differences. — Damian Kulash

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. — Alexander Smith

They entered the wild country. Broken fences. Ruined castles. Stretches of bogland. Wooded headlands. Turfsmoke rose from cabins, thin and mean. On the muddy paths, they glimpsed moving rags. The rags seemed more animate than the bodies within. As they passed, the families regarded them. The children appeared marooned with hunger. — Colum McCann

Perhaps such secrets, the secrets of everyone, were only expressed when the person laboriously ragged them into the light of the world, imposed them on the world, and made them a part of the world's experience. Without this effort, the secret place was merely a dungeon in which the person perished; without this effort, indeed, the entire world would be an uninhabitable darkness; and she saw, with a dreadful reluctance why this effort was so rare. — James Baldwin

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud. — Solomon Burke

All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't care, or they wouldn't hear, or they would take too much from me once they knew. — Patricia Gaffney