Bonassera Quotes & Sayings

There was no circumcision. Lee said circumcision was dreamed up by moralists and lotion salesmen to make hand jobs chafe, and Peggy deferred to his better judgement. — Nell Zink

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver ... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can "just forgive" the perpetrator ... But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly. — Timothy Keller

My Intent today is to expand the flow of abundance through the energy of gratitude. — Deepak Chopra

Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did. — Sarah Dessen

I don't want to become a superstar and not see my family anymore. — Jean Dujardin

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. And yes, I suppose I was interested in that story in the gap between memory itself, the real business of being alive, and the imagination. — Colm Toibin

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from. — Mae West

What threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things. — Paul Simon

There are many hidden truths behind a lie — Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy. — Robert Green Ingersoll

When you were twenty, you accepted yourself, flaws and all. Then disenchantment set in. By the time you were thirty your tolerance was wearing thin. You weren't entirely trustworthy, and you knew you were prone to compromise. Already the future was receding, the bright dreams were slipping below the horizon. By now you're a stage set, one push and the whole thing could collapse at your feet. At times you feel like you're living someone else's life, in a strange house you've rented by accident. The 'you' you've become isn't your real self. — J.G. Ballard

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. — John Cheever

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now. — Karin Slaughter

If you're always ready, you don't have to get ready. — Will Smith

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?' — Edwin Land