Bossily Quotes & Sayings

Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn't get out of bed. Just when you thought you might be pulling through, something would punch you in the gut and you'd be flat on your back again. — Brenda Rothert

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look. — Buck Owens

I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this. — Neel Mukherjee

Am you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Life eternal is to live in unity, in families, with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Eternal life is only possible through the keys of the priesthood of God, which were restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. Holding that eternal goal before the youth you lead is as great a gift as you could give them. — Henry B. Eyring

What makes my jaw drop is that people today should base their lives on such an appalling role model as Yahweh - and, even worse, that they should bossily try to force the same evil monster (whether fact or fiction) on the rest of us. — Richard Dawkins

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day. — Jon Meacham

I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it's a lot more personal and creative for me, I don't feel restricted. — Guy Pearce

Was that girl ever not in diva mode? — Robin Palmer

Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you? — Madeleine George

Amen" is how most of us end our prayers, the standard response to prayers in the synagogue and the church and the mosque. The word means "And so it is" or "Truly." Well, that's very nice, but what on earth does "it" mean? What is? The people praying are the ones saying "Amen," so it's not God saying bossily, like Judge Judy, "So it is. All done. Go away. Get some help with that anger." It is us, the damaged, hopeless people, lifting up our hope, hate, gratitude, fear, and shame, saying, Boy, do we hope we are right about this God stuff. — Anne Lamott

Books tended not to switch their stories whenever it suited them. — David Mitchell

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about. — Peter Stormare

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime. — Pauline Marois

If you can't change a situation, you can change your attitude toward it. — Abraham Low

I knew this id who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no matter what anyone else might want for you. — Madeleine George

Bordran did not choose someone who would make a good king. He made someone who could overthrow a bad one." End — Kel Kade

I don't choose my friends based on how they treat each other, I choose them based on how they treat me. — Scheana Marie

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.' — Clare Balding