Jack Boland Quotes & Sayings

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don't use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I'm a big fan of the scarf. — Leslie Bibb

Sometimes - more often than not - he thought that Rachel and her classmates were just playing at being caring and open-minded, at noticing that there was a world wider than them, their college, their peers. They'd experience poverty in two-hour chunks twice a month. like it was a movie they were going to see or a TV show they were watching, something they'd click off or walk out of when it was done, something they sat through just so they could talk about it with everyone else who'd seen it and had something to say. — Jennifer Weiner

There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W. Bush. But when that day comes, all we're going to have are tired puns and goofy looks. Because as you would say, we're suffering from the soft bigotry of low expectorations. — Jon Stewart

My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands. — Just Fontaine

Witches do that, they put things you want in places you shouldn't go. — Claire King

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings. — Jan Smuts

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today. — Theodore Roosevelt

I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It's in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made. — Mark Lawrence

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up. — Robin McKinley

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting. — Jack Antonoff

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

People always figure it's the color guard, but seriously, it's the woodwinds you've got to look out for. — Jackson Pearce

I wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway. — Jack Kerouac