Bojas Quotes & Sayings

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes ... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally. — John Adams

You don't see a fish in a chair often. — Lydia Millet

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way. — Leonardo Da Vinci

In the hierarchy of man's activities, eating was the lowest. Eating had become the object of a cult, but in fact it was but the preliminary to other, utterly contemptible motions. It occurred to him that he wanted to perform one of these too. — Elias Canetti

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst. — Joseph Stiglitz

The way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more. — Katharine Tynan

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged. — Alan Bradley

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. — John Cleese

Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember. — Joseph Eastwood

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. — Dan Rather

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning. — Danielle LaPorte

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz. — Trevor Baylis

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary. — Paul Lockhart

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after. — Molly Shannon

What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual. — L'Wren Scott