Boxar Quotes & Sayings

Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine. How could it be, then, that I did not like her much the better of the two? — Charles Dickens

My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral. — Timothy C. Ward

Sometimes when that kind of evil comes into our lives, we can't explain it, so we blame it on God or ourselves. In both cases we're wrong. Maybe it's time you let yourself out of prison. — James Lee Burke

Willingness to possess is the beginning of..love hurts. — Toba Beta

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both? — Shane Claiborne

Soldiering was about fighting. It was about killing people before they killed you. It was about having your way by force and guile in a dangerous world, taking a shit in the woods, living in dirty, difficult conditions, enduring hardships and risks that could - and sometimes did - kill you. It was ugly work. Which is not to say that certain men didn't enjoy it, didn't live for it. Garrison was one of those men. He embraced its cruelty. He would say, this man needs to die. Just like that. Some people needed to die. — Mark Bowden

Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel. — Camille Paglia

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true. — Payne Stewart

I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance. — Steve Maraboli

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. — William James

Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort. — Mark Buchanan

I have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a sort of music, and should not introduce meanings or intentions into the diction before clearly grasping the system of sounds that every poem must offer on pain of nonexistence. — Paul Valery

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy. — Theodore Roosevelt

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it. — Amitabh Bachchan