Boordevol Quotes & Sayings

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father — August Strindberg

If you believe it, it is. — Adele Kenny

They spent the rest of the afternoon trudging back up the hill carrying their groceries, but the heaviness of cucumbers and limes was nothing compared to the heaviness in the orphans' hearts. — Lemony Snicket

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your own secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings. — Robin Hobb

Every book title becomes infinitely better if 'in your pants' or 'from your pants' is added to the title. — John Green

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women. — Patrick Rothfuss

Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire. — Gillian Marchenko

Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety---lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched rather than shared, help not offered. These are the acts of war that most threaten our homes and workplaces. — The Arbinger Institute

I do like to belong to a man. — Eva Mendes

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education. — John Shaw Billings

But there are other men who put peace ahead of righteousness, and who care so little for facts that they treat fantastic declarations for immediate universal arbitration as being valuable, instead of detrimental, to the cause they profess to champion, and who seek to make the United States impotent for international good under the pretense of making us impotent for international evil. All the men of this kind, and all of the organizations they have controlled, since we began our career as a nation, all put together, have not accomplished one hundredth part as much for both peace and righteousness, have not done one hundredth part as much either for ourselves or for other peoples, as was accomplished by the people of the United States when they fought the war with Spain and with resolute good faith and common sense worked out the solution of the problems which sprang from the war. — Theodore Roosevelt