Bostock Decision Quotes & Sayings

Buddha said, "Forgive? But I am not the same man to whom you did it. The Ganges goes on flowing, it is never the same Ganges again. Every man is a river. The man you spit upon is no longer here. I look just like him, but I am not the same, much has happened in these twenty-four hours! The river has flowed so much. So I cannot forgive you because I have no grudge against you."

"And you also are new. I can see you are not the same man who came yesterday because that man was angry and he spit, whereas you are bowing at my feet, touching my feet. How can you be the same man? You are not the same man, so let us forget about it. Those two people, the man who spit and the man on whom he spit, both are no more. Come closer. Let us talk of something else. — Gautama Buddha

Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good. — Michael Connelly

Oh, that the church would fall on its face and cry out the words the prophet Habakkuk cried: "LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known" (3:2). — Beth Moore

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. — James W. Black

I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess. — Joshua Oppenheimer

All of my songs are autobiographical. — Taylor Swift

I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the same time it's a very difficult place to build a small business. — Bill De Blasio

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly
but truth survives the flight. — William C. Bryant

To yield readily
easily
to the persuasion of a friend is no merit ... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. — Jane Austen

He realized that monarchy was essential to peace, and that the price of freedom was violence and disorder. — Tacitus

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Girls in my profession know a little too much about men. The ones who want to know a woman as a person are fewer than you'd hope, and most of those don't even realize it about themselves. They don't care who a woman is, or what she's scared of, or who she wants to become. They think they want a woman, but what they really want is a flattering looking glass wearing lipstick and telling them what they want to hear. — Elizabeth Bear