Bonzeye Quotes & Sayings

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. — Albert Payson Terhune

I have been all over this world of ours and I have found only one truth to be universal no matter what culture, people or country, I have visited. If you there with an open hand, an open heart, a smile, and demonstrating a little respect for those you me, you will always find yourself welcome. — Michael Leslie

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. — Mary McCarthy

...people don't think in churches.

[Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion.] — Robert Noyce

He said a fortuneteller had told Mum's fortune once, and after that, she's never gone out on sea again. It was years ago, but she never has. Not once." said Conner
"What did the fortuneteller say?" I asked
"Dad wouldn't tell me. It must have been something really bad though."
"maybe the fortuneteller said that Mum would die by drowning." I suggested.
"Don't be stupid Saph. A fortuneteller wouldn't ever say that to someone. You're going to drown, that'll be ten pounds please — Helen Dunmore

no matter how hard a person ran, no matter how fresh the start they gave themselves, the past had a way of reaching across the years to catch them. — Kate Morton

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games. — Darrell Royal

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning, — John Doerr

In peace-time the scientist belongs to humanity, in war-time to his fatherland. — Fritz Haber

The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex. — Neal Stephenson

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. — Benjamin Disraeli

When all else fails, give up and go to the library. — Stephen King

At home in Dellacrosse my place in the world of college and Troy and incipient adulthood dissolved and I became an unseemly collection of jostling former selves. Snarkiness streaked through my voice, or sullenness drove me behind a closed door for hours at a time. — Lorrie Moore

It is interesting that Satan, who voted for 'no opposition', has become the main source of it! — Mary Edmunds

Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe, always evolving may not be compatible with the Book of Genesis. However, religions such as Buddhism get along without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted by a universe without a beginning or end.] Creatio ex nihilo, even as religious doctrine, only dates to around AD 200. The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science. — Hannes Alfven