Boklandt Quotes & Sayings

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them. — X.J. Kennedy

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. — George Herbert

Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color. — Louisa May Alcott

You will not always be happy, my dear, however wise you are--I wasn't--but always take what comes to you--don't fight life, Camilla, accept it with grace... — Elswyth Thane

If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many. — Paul Robeson

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too. — Stevie Nicks

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. — Stephen Chbosky

I have been in perturbation of mind for days, debating whether I shall write it, and now, having written, whether to send it. — Diana Gabaldon

We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly ... — Seanan McGuire

Merciful heaven, social status is something to be strived for, not born with, or, worse yet, displayed. Social status is a reward for social climbing, a pursuit that may get you the attention of other limelighthers but won't move you up one skinny rung as far as your social station in Dixie is concerned. — Ann Barrett Batson

The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.... but it's willing too — Josh Stern

In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and necessary to cope with our everyday environment, but it is not a fundamental feature of reality. It is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorising intellect. To believe that our abstract concepts of separate 'things' and 'events' are realities of nature is an illusion. — Fritjof Capra