Bonden Quotes & Sayings

In extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury. — Fred Vargas

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem. — Denis Waitley

Right before the explosions begin, I find a star. — Suzanne Collins

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs. — Paul Auster

As a scientist I rebelled against the disorder, and I had long since discovered that nothing thwarted the mental processes like clutter. — Deanna Raybourn

Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

It was an operation that Dr. Maturin had carried out at sea before, always in the fullest possible light and therefore on deck, and many of them had seen him do so.
Now they and all their mates saw him do it again: they saw Joe Plaice's scalp taken off, his skull bared, a disc of bone audibly sawn out, the handle turning solemnly; a three-shilling piece, hammered into a flattened dome by the armourer, screwed on over the hole; and the scalp replaced, neatly sewn up by the parson.
It was extremely gratifying - the Captain had been seen to go pale, and Barret Bonden too, the patient's cousin - blood running down Joe's neck regardless - brains clearly to be seen - something not to be missed for a mint of money - instructive, too - and they made the most of it. — Patrick O'Brian

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. — Criss Jami

I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening. — Amelie Nothomb

if no changes were necessary for you to achieve financial independence, you'd already be there. — John Cummuta

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment. — Brian Michael Bendis

You are not allowed to get lost unless I want to lose you. You aren't allowed to be found, unless it's me doing the finding. And the only way you're allowed to die is if I choose to kill you with my own hands. Your life doesn't belong to you anymore, and if I have to murder you tonight and paint the snow with your blood to make you understand that, I will. You are mine, Kingsley. End of discussion. — Tiffany Reisz

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew. — Michael Caine

Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed? — David Foster Wallace

Since the sheets were half-flown the sails instantly split at the seams, the maintopsail shaking so furiously that the masthead must have gone had not Mowett, the bosun, Bonden, Warley the captain of the maintop and three of his men gone aloft, laid out on the ice-coated yard and cut the sail away close to the reefs.
Warley was on the lee yardarm when the footrope gave way under him and he fell, plunging far clear of the side and instantly vanishing in the terrible sea. — Patrick O'Brian