Borchardt Quotes & Sayings

Maeniel felt this was why all the great sages never wrote anything down. In the final analysis, scriptures are futile things, dependent as they are on the intentions of the interpreter. All too often too literal a mind can lead human students into strange follies. Sometimes it is better to allow the searchers to try to plumb the depths of the great mystery on their own and accept that not every one of those taking the road will see the same end. — Alice Borchardt

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake. — Anne Carson

So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered. — Alice Borchardt

Be free always, because of all things, freedom is best, though it is not easily won and must be chosen by those who will enjoy it. — Alice Borchardt

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge. — Alice Borchardt

Oh yes, I admire books. I still do. They can preserve a truth for twice a thousand years and teach it to any who has the skill and cares to read it. They can also fix a lie in stone forever. But worse still, they - the books - can be about nothing at all. Nothing real. — Alice Borchardt

Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks. — William Shakespeare

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation . — Franklin D. Roosevelt

To be happy - that's all that matters. — Audrey Hepburn

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become. — Robin Jones Gunn

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late. — Joseph Stiglitz

In the hollow steel-lined bin, my unfortunate eruption resonated such that it would have humiliated me if my first concern had been social acceptance. My first concern, however, was survival. At the moment, I didn't have the capacity for embarrassment because terror filled me. — Dean Koontz

If death be the last thing I do, why, I pray the gods and heroes of my people that I try to do it as well as I have done more pleasant things. — Alice Borchardt

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer — Jenny Han

Love is eternal. That is its terror and its final beauty. Love never ends. The joy may go out of it, and, in time, even the pain may end. But it lingers like a living thing and follows you every moment of your life. — Alice Borchardt

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me. — Ray Charles