Borden Quotes & Sayings

I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don't always appreciate it in the moment. — Amanda Borden

My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured. — Frederick William Borden

If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on? — William Whiting Borden

The border between personal and transpersonal experience is a complex region. It is a territory often filled with spiritual and religious views. Within psychology it was a significant preoccupation of William James, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, and many others. But these margins may be seen in other ways as well. There is substantial evidence from psychological studies of personal space that we carry body boundaries of extended space around ourselves. These spatial extensions are not only personal. They may be felt by groups as well - in terms of shared "social" space, communal territories, or even national identities. — Richard J. Borden

I thought I would go out, and see if the air would make me feel any better. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Our bodies and minds are the current manifestations of a transhuman heritage. We are the burgeoning borders of life, along with every other living thing. All the creatures through which we have unfolded still linger, however faintly, within the design of our being. The more we know of this, the richer the feeling and experience of personal ecology. — Richard J. Borden

I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more. — Mary Borden

I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Our deep irrational feelings of death anxiety have been attributed to multiple sources. In part, they may arise from evolved self-protection mechanisms or survival responses of being a victim of predators. They might, conversely, stem from unconscious fear (or guilt) of retribution resulting from our own acts of harming or predation. According to existential psychologists, the most powerful form of death anxiety comes from our general ability to anticipate the future, coupled with conscious anticipation of inevitable personal demise. — Richard J. Borden

Ms. Borden is Lizzy's mother? — Anne Bishop

One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas. — Richard J. Borden

I never eat any breakfast. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Ecological awareness expands the context of life; it also enlarges who we are as a person. — Richard J. Borden

She told me she had a note, somebody was sick. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Viewing ecology through the lens of individual life histories or the life cycles of species makes it easy to grasp the Hindu conception of life as drama. Every creature and plant has a separate path of sustenance and survival on the way to their final dance with Shiva. — Richard J. Borden

Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me. — Borden Chase

It may be said, in broad-brush terms, that the primary purpose of life is the continuation of life. A deep program for survival and reproduction underwrites the complex cycles of life, in which death is the grand equalizer. There is, however, a peculiar novelty: human awareness of the cycle of life and a capacity to anticipate our own, individual death. — Richard J. Borden

Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That in itself would be an accomplishment. But this is a book that is truly riveting, a narrative that gallops. Lizzy Borden eat your heart out. Here's a real crime of passion. Or was it? I dare you to pick this one up and try, just try to put it down. — Peter Orner

We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby Borden ... we did, however, attach grave importance to Lizzie's 'peculiar spells. — Victoria Lincoln

Wow. That's sort of pretty. In a Jaws kind of way. — Jim Butcher

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love! — Mary Borden

Children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids. — Mary Borden

If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention — Lisa Borden

Here I was with the guy I maybe-loved, relaxing by the ocean with salty crisp breezes and blue-gray sea curving into a for-ever horizon. We even had background music to add to the romantic ambience. And except for the "can't kiss because he's my brother" thing, this was the perfect romantic moment. — Linda Joy Singleton

One wants more time, more youth. That is it. That is all one asks for - nothing but that, a little more time. Hear it running by! Listen! In the night, in the morning, at noon, at even, rushing by, silent, stealthy, trying to hoodwink you by the fixed appearance of things that seem not to change; but never stopping. Oh, to stop it! Oh, to get it back! Oh, to dig one's toes in and refuse to be rushed headlong towards the brink! — Mary Borden

Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

And if I fucked you, it'd be forceful, wouldn't it?" "Well, that's what rape is, Borden. Forceful." He shrugged. "You can have consensual forceful fucking, right? — R.J. Lewis

Consider me your rescuer, not your jailer," he said to Frankie, without looking at her. His gut told him that, on the criminal mastermind scale, this one landed closer to Tinker Bell than Lizzie Borden. — Roxanne Snopek

Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me. — Amanda Borden

It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished. — Mary Borden

The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution. — Richard J. Borden

I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

As for the prayers, I suppose they can't hurt. I've never found much good in them, I'll confess that here, though I keep such thoughts private when in public company. Who would confide in a physician who claimed no affiliation with God? I still must feed myself, and keep my house. I still need my patients. But too many people believe with too much conviction in what amounts to, at best, a superstition.
I've seen science change a patient's diagnosis, but I've never heard a prayer that changed God's mind about a damn thing.. — Cherie Priest

Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car?" Borden asked.
We'd look a lot more suspicious if we were all three making out in the car," Jazz said. "What?" she added, when Borden turned and gave her a wide-eyed look.
You have no idea what kind of happy place you just took me to."
Shut up. — Rachel Caine

Sometimes, when we are far from clocks and schedules, we can still recapture a lost sense of place-based time. On a relaxing camping trip or a long day outdoors, perhaps, we can slip back into the rhythm of the sun. — Richard J. Borden

I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The complementary arts of integration are far less well developed. This problem is at the core of human ecology. As with any interdisciplinary pursuit, it is the bridging across disparate ways of knowing that is the constant challenge. — Richard J. Borden

The way to goodness," Borden had said, "is one of sacrifice. He who sacrifices will have it a hundred times returned. — Michelle Hoover

Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. — Amanda Borden

I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

How our attitudes are shaped and defended may be more changeable than we realize. — Richard J. Borden

She wielded it easily, lightly. She carried it swinging like a baseball bat, only with more poetry to it. It was a frightening thing to watch, this small shadow of billowing grey fabric and sprawling, wild hair splaying out behind her, the axe held at the ready with both hands, poised and prepared. — Cherie Priest

My passion for human ecology was not a drive for closure - but rather the joy of endless openings and newfound connections. There is no final goal or perfect completion, only the expanding experience of being alive. — Richard J. Borden

She collected herself, and rose from the floor. "Until you have a better grasp on what we're dealing with here, I'd appreciate your immediate proximity."
I did as she asked. She was the expert, after all.
But what a terrifying thought, that the world's foremost expert knew only enough to live in horror. — Cherie Priest

For an entire year he saved all of his trash. Except for what he actually ate, everything was sorted into bins. At year's end, his living room and kitchen were filled with nearly a hundred cubic feet of stuff. Some was compostable. But the vast majority was leftover food packaging. Derfel's experimentation shows what happens when someone intentionally holds onto everything. The point of his exercise was to raise consciousness about the environmental impact of one individual's consumer waste. At another level, it demonstrates that we readily discard most of what passes though daily life as useless trash. — Richard J. Borden

They don't make assassins like they used to. -Borden — Daniel Millhouse

I could see, in the haze to the north, the tall stacks of the mighty Borden phosphate and fertilizer plant in Bradenton, spewing lethal fluorine and sulphuric-acid components into the vacation sky. In the immediate area it is known bitterly as the place where Elsie the Cow coughed herself to death. I have read where it had been given yet another two years to correct its massive and dangerous pollution. Big Borden must have directors somewhere. Maybe, like the Penn Central directors, they are going to sit on their respective docile asses until the roof falls in. There are but two choices. Either they know they condone poisoning and don't give a damn, or they don't know they condone poisoning and don't give a damn. Anybody can walk into any brokerage office and be told where to look to find a complete list of the names of the directors and where they live. Drop the fellows a line, huh? — John D. MacDonald

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months. — Frederick William Borden

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden. — Kenneth Tynan

But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free love. A young woman named Borden killed her parents. — Erik Larson

You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun
a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. — Borden Chase

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially - and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context. — Richard J. Borden

I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

I can't do anything in a minute. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden

I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Discovering the threads that constitute actual interactions is an essential means of making sense of the world. But perception of overall patterns of things that are contextually related is equally important. — Richard J. Borden

The average American child, by age eighteen, is estimated to have seen eighteen thousand murders and two hundred thousand acts of violence on television. The "death play" of popular video games is accelerating these numbers to ever-higher levels. — Richard J. Borden

The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics. — Richard J. Borden

There are three times in a man's life when he has the right to yell at the moon-when he marries; when his children come; and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start. — Borden Chase

I was feeling well enough to eat the pears. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

These Ginnie Maes suck. They get longer [in maturity] when rates go up, and shorter when rates go down, and nobody wants them — Michael Lewis

I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

True creativity is more likely if you are more relaxed — Harry Borden

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. — Jim Butcher

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

This world by itself is a wonder. — Richard J. Borden

Believe that you can make a difference; in fact, you do with every single choice you make. Your money is your power and each time you spend it, it's a vote for something, so make it count. I personally live and work by this African Proverb - If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito. — Lizzie Borden

Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price - death of the individual. — Richard J. Borden

I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London. — Mary Borden

My parents never forced things on my brother and me: not our faith, not our sports, not our friends. Yet they taught us about surrounding ourselves with the right people: the kind of people we want to be. — Amanda Borden

She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded. — Frederick William Borden

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden. — Irene Tomkinson

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

I had no occasion for an apron on that morning. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert. — Glen Robinson

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter. — Lizzie Andrew Borden