Boonstra Quotes & Sayings

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity. — Pete Hegseth

I cannot, or will not, take the freedoms this country offers for granted. But these freedoms have come with a price so many times. The sacrifices made by our veterans are reminders to us of this. — Melania Trump

This very personal relationship, 'value,' has two factors for a human being: first, what he can do with a thing, its use to him . . . and second, what he must do to get it, its cost to him. There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted . . . and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears. — Robert A. Heinlein

Perk, from the minute you got here ... I hated you before you got here ... But the moment you got here, man, you just changed my whole perception of you. Just one of the best teammates I ever had. I just thank you so much. The late night calls after tough games, you texting me, telling me I'm the MVP. That means a lot to me, man. Thank you. — Kevin Durant

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it? — Elizabeth Gilbert

[Holy ridicule] does not mock the serious things of life, but rather people who take themselves too seriously--not God, but man's ecclesiastical idols; not God's word, but man's interpretation of that Word; not the faith once delivered to the saints, but the sometimes silly caperings of those saints. — Harry Boonstra

I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film. — Matthew Lillard

I'm pretty sure my love affair with science-fiction started with ET. — Shiloh Walker

I'm superstitious a little bit. — Jake Gyllenhaal

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us. — James Martin

When others believe you can't ...
prove them wrong by showing them you can and that you always will! — Timothy Pina

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do. — Chris Noth

True wisdom is gentle and relevant. It comes to us when we are ready to hear it through a conduit we perceive as safe and loving. — Danielle Boonstra

Will the prized treasures of to-day always be the cheap trifles of the day before? Will rows of our willow-pattern dinner-plates be ranged above the chimneypieces of the great in the years 2000 and odd? Will the white cups with the gold rim and the beautiful gold flower inside (species unknown), that our Sarah Janes now break in sheer light-heartedness of spirit, be carefully mended, and stood upon a bracket, and dusted only by the lady of the house? China — Jerome K. Jerome

Our peace comes from remembering our wholeness and that the end of desire is the beginning of a life filled with Light. — Danielle Boonstra

I want someone to love me, for who I am;
I want someone to need me, is that so bad? — Nick Jonas

A surrendered day is a good day. — Danielle Boonstra

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. — Henry Rollins