Boringly Studious Quotes & Sayings

It's just that I think we should be responsible for our friends, is all. If we're not, why bother to have friends? — Chet Williamson

It's probably the meaning of the Resurrection: love dies to be reborn. When we let die our attachments to remembrances, expectations, moral imperatives, evaluations, comparisons, self-images, beliefs about how others should behave, ideals, and even romance, we make ourselves clearings for love's rebirth. — Brad Blanton

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. — Italo Calvino

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. — Henry David Thoreau

Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are like
applause. — A.K. Nicholas

Well, the natives seemed fairly friendly, so I decided to stay the night. I made a mental note never to seem fairly friendly to an explorer. If you do, he always decides to stay the night. — P.G. Wodehouse

Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on. — Richard Pascale

A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy. — John Stuart Mill

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19. — Dustin Clare

On the third, we got into troubles. Baz Jesek had gotten more and more involved with equipment and maintenance - he is a good engineer, I'll give him that - I was tactical commander, and Oser - I thought by default, but now I think design - took up the administrative slack. Could have been good, each doing what he did best, if Oser'd been working with and not against us. In the same situation, I'd have sent assassins. Oser employed guerilla accountants. — Lois McMaster Bujold