Replayed Boston Quotes & Sayings

How many writers are there ... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts. — John Henry Newman

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique. — Piero Scaruffi

In a battle, some soldiers of Guru Gobind Singh saw a Sikh named Ghanaya giving water to the enemy. They went to the Guru with their complaint. Ghanaya was called and questioned. Ghanaya's response was that he had not helped the enemy: as he went around the battlefield, he saw no friend or foe but only the Guru's face. — Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values, but making an example out of a few people would be a disservice. — Thomas R. Pickering

He quite liked dentists' waiting rooms. Waiting for dentists was good. Waiting for them was so much better than having them stick metal spikes in your mouth. — Jackson Radcliffe

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. — Charles Kettering

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities. — John Bolton

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause. — James Grant

Anyway, there were more after the war than before. — Hutton Gibson

To speak like a book I once read, wet weather is the narrative, and fine days are the episodes, of our country's history; — Thomas Hardy

Pectoral implants? My God! The man's had a boob job! — Jackie Williams

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. — Robert Burton

To B-major or B-minor: that is the question. Consider that the major and minor chords are separated by the smallest tonal step which is one half-step carrying in its pitch the gravity of all humanity which needs the major to recognize its relative, inherent tragedy which once given expression seeks the resurrection that only the major can procreate which self-expression gives beauty to the harmony of the major which then confirms the whole truth of the tragic minor saga which overcomes the hidden hand of destiny in the great ellipse of being and the greater cosmic void of nothingness which passage of time has sadly destined to be replayed in the same octave of the ineluctable modality of the audible which ellipse with such a simple twist resonates as infinity which is both meaningless beyond all human capacity for understanding but which holds within it the ubiquitous mystic beauty and truth of the pulsing human heart. — David B. Lentz

Simplicity of appearance can cause hindrance to success when you are poor. But the same simplicity is admired in a rich and successful person. — Shon Mehta