Bonsu Thompson Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa. — Hilary Swank

In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a mature or even quasi-sane way. Instead, I would hang on resentfully, praying that my doomed beau would end things first and spare me the displeasure. To add hindrance to hang-up, the men I chose were usually just as stoic as I was. — Koren Zailckas

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent — Betty Williams

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm. — Bertrand Russell

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish. — John W. Gardner

Numbers never lie; one can make them, of course, as one can make anything speak another story in another tongue, but they do not have the inherent falsehood that words carry. — Neel Mukherjee

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them. — John McPhee

Our choice will determine whether we will fulfill the will of God or not — Sunday Adelaja

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.' — Chris Hayes

Take time to love and be loved, for it is the greatest gift of life. — Pravin Agarwal