Bonvino Quotes & Sayings

In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it. — Bear Bryant

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting. — Eva Mendes

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. — Allen Tucker

The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite. The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable. There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world. — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name. — Pat Conroy

Scriptural determinism" sounds like an arcane academic paradigm, but it is deployed by nonacademics in a consequential way. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as Americans tried to fathom the forces at work, sales of several kinds of books rose. Some people bought books about Islam, some bought books about the recent history of the Middle East, and some bought translations of the Koran. And of course some bought more than one kind of book. But people who bought only translations of the Koran were showing signs of scriptural determinism. They seemed to think that you could understand the terrorists' motivation simply by reading their ancient scriptures - just search the Koran for passages advocating violence against infidels and, having succeeded, end the analysis, content that you'd found the essential cause of 9/11. — Robert Wright

I am a grateful ... grapefruit. — Bjork

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach. — Plutarch