Bongarten Quotes & Sayings

I'm a savant when it comes to character judgment," he tells her. "For instance, most people wouldn't see anything in you besides attitude and a need for stronger deodorant, but I think you can handle the storks almost as well as Connor handled the Graveyard."
Bam gives him a halfhearted glare. "Can you ever give a compliment without also making it an insult?"
"No," he admits. "Not possible. It's the essence of my charm. — Neal Shusterman

Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism. — Richard Rodriguez

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor. — Terry Goodkind

When people aren't ready to hear a truth it is easier to label the discloser as insane to hide their own incapacity. — Ahmed Hulusi

Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you. — Abhijit Naskar

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about? — Alfred North Whitehead

When you get done with breakfast we're going to head into town to do some shopping.
Oh God. It was worse than I thought. — Tammy Blackwell