Bohemen En Quotes & Sayings

If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing. — Alcoholics Anonymous

In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. — Richard Flanagan

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth. — Li Zhaoxing

In the soul of a lover, it is always spring where flowers of ecstasy are always blooming. Music of love is always playing. — Debasish Mridha

Ten thousand!" I shouted at the walls, back in the room with the wooden shutters, now open, so that anyone could hear me, on the porch or probably across the compound. "That arrogant bastard landed ten thousand men at Tas-Elisa. In my port! Mine!" When I was a child and playmates snatched my toys out of my hands, I tended to smile weakly and give in. Years later I was acting the way I should have as a child. Probably not the most mature behavior for a king, but I was still cursing as I swung around to find a delegation of barons in the doorway behind me. My father, Baron Comeneus, and Baron Xorcheus among them.
They thought it was how a king behaved.
I ran my fingers through my hair and tried to pursue a more reasonable line of thought, but more reasonable thoughts made me angry again. — Megan Whalen Turner

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. — Martin Luther

They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference, ... The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It's not about authority. It's about leadership ... They've got all the authority already. — George Haddow

We're here to have a ball. — Art Blakey

Carefully I leaned over and adjusted the baby blanket higher over his chest.
"Dane," I said softly, "remember that thing you told me about the duck and the tennis ball? About how baby ducks get attached to the first thing they see after they're born?"
"Imprinting."
"How does that work again? ... "
"After the duckling is hatched, there's a window of time during which another creature, or even an inanimate object, is stamped onto his nervous system, and he becomes bonded to it. In the study I read, a duckling became imprinted to a tennis ball."
"How long is the window of time?"
Dane's voice was half-wary, half-amused. "Why? Are you afraid you're the tennis ball?"
"I don't know. It's possible Luke is the tennis ball."
-Ella & Dane — Lisa Kleypas

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Way up in my tree I'm sitting by my fire
Wond'rin' where in this world might you be
And knowin' all the time you're still roamin' the countryside
Do you still think about me? — Jimi Hendrix

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small. — Robert Smith

That heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love. — Ari Berk