Bona Fides Banja Quotes & Sayings

Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim. — Charles Dickens

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent. — Lyman Abbott

I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age. — Hammurabi

Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win. — Nasser Hussain

You want to achieve the effect, but not necessarily perform the same thing. — Andrew Wyatt

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom. — Timothy Ferriss

They don't want to write - they want the fame, money, and prestige of a writer. If they had an actual, personal desire to write, i.e., if they had something to say - without second-handedness involved, no desire to impress, nor any desire to re-hash some plagiarized ideas - they would have the talent. Men usually have the talent for that which they want to do - if they really want to do it, i.e., if their primary motive is personal, not second-hand. — Ayn Rand

'The Newsroom' is phenomenally bad good TV. Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer are all terrific! So is the production, and the direction, and even the editing! — Alex Pareene

Relativism emerges as the contemporary supplement of a wish to appear democratic, tolerant and humble about one's ability to grasp the truth. Democracy is perceived as defending the "the right of each person to his or her own viewpoint, so much so, indeed, it seems to imply a tolerance that asks one to relativize one's own positions and to shrink from putting them forward as true — Gediminas T. Jankunas

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them. — Peter F. Hamilton