Hunter Boylan Quotes & Sayings

dig my fingernails into my palms. — Paula Hawkins

Repeat after me: "I am a goddess. I am a goddess. I am a goddess." Make this your mantra. From constant repetition you will start believing it, and if you yourself are convinced of your goddesshood, other people will be convinced. — Jessica Zafra

If you want to be, if you want to see, let us read a lot, then we will have a shot! — Debasish Mridha

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance. — Edward Snowden

We're at a crucial point in history. We cannot have fast cars, computers the size of credit cards, and modern conveniences, whilst simultaneously having clean air, abundant rainforests, fresh drinking water and a stable climate. This generation can have one or the other but not both. Humanity must make a choice. Both have an opportunity cost. Gadgetry or nature? Pick the wrong one and the next generations may have neither. — Mark Boyle

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him. — W. Somerset Maugham

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them. — Alice Sebold

I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small matters, which so many excellent persons consider necessary in the education of children. I think it monstrous to hold the source of inconceivable mercy and goodness perpetually up to them as an avenging and wrathful God who - making them in His wisdom children before they are men and women - is to punish them awfully for every little venial offence which is almost a necessary part of that stage of life. — Charles Dickens

Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight. — Janny Wurts

If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious, but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defeats. Our people are represented as patriotic heroes, their enemies as grasping imperialists, or subversive rebels. In other words, our national histories are propaganda, not well balanced investigation. — John Bagot Glubb