Bosmans Bedden Quotes & Sayings

Simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; — Henry David Thoreau

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity. — Robertson Davies

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days. — Jon Stewart

Increasingly, Christian life seems to be nothing more than a particular way of behaving, a code of good conduct. Christianity is increasingly alienated, becoming a social attribute adapted to meet the least worthy of human demands - conformity, sterile conservatism, pusillanimity and timidity; it is adapted to the trivial moralizing which seeks to adorn cowardice and individual security with the funerary decoration of social decorum. — Christos Yannaras

Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame. — Walter Wykes

She would have given up every Gathering from now until she went to join StarClan, if only she could have been sure that her sister was safe. — Erin Hunter

Widmerpool had tidied himself up a little since leaving school, though there was still a kind of exotic drabness about his appearance that seemed to mark him out from the rest of mankind. — Anthony Powell

I quietly walk to my room, and keeping the door open, I pick up my cello settling it between my knees. The tips of my left hand press down on the fingerboard, while my right hand saws the bow across the strings. The notes hit the air and I shut my eyes, urging them to find their target. I want them to surround my mom and her dad, but I also want the notes to glue them together, reattach their bond. I know it can happen, and so when my calluses become useless, I keep playing. When my arm protests with fatigue, I keep playing. I keep playing because I believe. — Cassie Shine

He that gives me small gifts would have me live. — George Herbert

The idea of good and evil has thus nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need of animal races. And when founders of religions, philosophers, and moralists tell us of divine or metaphysical entities, they are only recasting what each ant, each sparrow practices in its little society. Is this useful to society? Then it is good. Is this hurtful? Then it is bad. — Pyotr Kropotkin

Happenstance intersecting with received wisdom produces something entirely new and significant — William Boyd

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence. — Stephen Charnock