Bohemios Club Quotes & Sayings

I am two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality. — Bevan Lee

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens. — Reza Aslan

O, to be a ruler of life
not a slave, To meet life as a powerful conqueror, No fumes
no ennui
no more complaints or scornful criticisms. O me repellent and ugly, O to these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior Soul impregnable, And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me. — Walt Whitman

In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt. — Zora Neale Hurston

The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its end. — Hans Cloos

True freedom is being able to give up all your rights for another out of love. Just ask Jesus. He willingly came to earth. Willingly lived life for thirty-three years. Willingly let himself be beaten, scourged, and crucified. All for others. All for us. — Jefferson Bethke

Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion. — Pankaj Mishra

His confession was silent, and her promise of faithfulness was silent. — George Eliot

But at the core of psychopathy is a lack of moral restraint. — Jon Ronson

He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which, instant by instant, gives life to the soul. It is a concern with a realization that breeds charity and with the charity that breeds action. Often the nature of grace can be made plain only by describing its absence. — Flannery O'Connor

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother. — Lou Reed

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy. — Lukas Foss