Boiste Quotes & Sayings

When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically. — David Rudolf

Obtuseness was its own defense — Trevanian

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

Some years ago I read a book that brought Einstein's theory of relativity down to an eighth grade level. This convinced me that any subject can be made easy. In other words, always beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. This person may, for some reason, be trying to shut you out. You CAN understand almost anything. — Richard J. Maybury

Once fallen, the blossom doesn't return to the branch — Lesley Downer

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

He had curled himself up into a minature sphere in the farthest corner of the box, a fuzzy softball that would have fit eaisly into the palm of my hand. — Gwen Cooper

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces. — Marvin Harris

He had this domineering way about him that totally ketchuped my tater tots - it was like he knew what I wanted more than I did. — Nicole Peeler

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Lord Sanquire was hanged in the days of James I. for the revengeful murder of an "Alsatian " master named Turner, who had accidentally put out his eye. — Egerton Castle

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. — John Lennon