Borenson Hands On Quotes & Sayings

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings. — Walter Dean Myers

Realization of God cannot be achieved without ecstatic love for Him. — Sarada Devi

Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle. — Jillian Michaels

I was the world's ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody. — Phyllis Diller

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing. — Pope Francis

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live. — Rob Bignell, Editor

When you get to the big leagues, you need to take potential and turn it into performance. You want to be the guy who got the most out of his ability, not the guy who never fulfilled his potential. — Travis Hafner

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book. — Claire Tomalin

My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet, and within 15 seconds, I was printing out a certificate which allowed me to officiate at their wedding. — Lucy Punch

Officially she was there to liaise with me on the case, but really she was there for the wide-screen TV, takeaways and the unresolved sexual tension. — Ben Aaronovitch

You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue. — Iris Murdoch

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. — Anna Brownell Jameson

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.. — Charles Jaffe

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. — Ellsworth Huntington