Bouma Brothers Quotes & Sayings

The mountain consisted of a giant cone of blue-gray rock and was surrounded by an endless, barren highland studded with a few trees charred by fire and overgrown with gray moss and gray brush, out of which here and there brown boulders jutted up like rotten teeth. Even by light of day, the region was so dismal and dreary that the poorest shepherd in this poverty-stricken province would not have driven his animals here. And by night, by the bleaching light of the moon, it was such a godforsaken wilderness that it seemed not of this world. — Patrick Suskind

I have the time and the heart to fall and feel in love, but I am scared that I cannot certainly tell the difference between a slut and a beloved anymore. — M.F. Moonzajer

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth. — Sigmar Polke

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human. — Michael Jackson

I'm not even embarrassed to hug my parents in public. Except when Nathan wears a sweatband when he goes running. Because really! — Stephanie Perkins

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter. — Jennifer McMahon

In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles. — James Hollis

She had lied to him. She had wanted to save lives, yes. But she had gone out there with no intention of saving her own. — Sarah J. Maas

The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy. — Marcus Aurelius

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse. — Tim Ferriss

Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But it doesn't take long until you have acquired a pile of pebbles that's taller than you and heavier than you could ever hope to move, even if you wanted to do it over a few dozen trips. But for the person who took the time to hand you their pebble, it seems outrageous that you can't handle that one tiny thing. — Merlin Mann

I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen. — Tom Scharpling