Bordolois Quotes & Sayings

A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it — John Stuart Mill

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life. — Willa Cather

Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing. — Jim Elliot

I am doubtful myself about the undertaking. Part of the attraction of the L.R. is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist. To go there is to destroy the magic, unless new unattainable vistas are again revealed. Also many of the older legends are purely 'mythological', and nearly all are grim and tragic: a long account of the disasters that destroyed the beauty of the Ancient World, from the darkening of Valinor to the Downfall of Numenor and the flight of Elendil. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also. — John Steinbeck

this was not the end of the world, actually it was the world. — Knausgaard, Karl Ove

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology. — Joe Slovo

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising. — Bruce Lee

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. — Richard Feynman

The sea can smack the rocks like a hand smacking a cheek. It can hiss or gurgle or even kiss. But when it wants, it can go quiet. 'And then', said Anya Rothrock, 'you can hear the voices of the drowned'. — Caroline B. Cooney

Our greatest need from God isn't for Him to change our circumstances but for Him to use our circumstances to change us. — Wayne Stiles

No society can smash the social contract and be exempt from the consequences, and the consequences are chaos for everybody in society. — James Baldwin

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body. — Charlie Sheen