Zabransky Boise Quotes & Sayings

Men's activities are occupied into ways
in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind. — William James

The name is something we thought about for a long time, and we wanted it to be a girl's name, but we didn't want it to be 'the Jesses,' ... We were very conscious of not wanting to make it a twin thing, because we think that's really tacky. — Lisa Origliasso

I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn't have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak. — Leigh Bardugo

Well, success does not mean doing well. — Shirley Maclaine

As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones. — Gadadhara Pandit Dasa

Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object. — Margaret Kennedy

Some religions, such as Catholicism, fully endorsed slavery, as Pope Nicholas V made clear when, in 1452, he issued the radically proslavery document Dum Diversas. This was a papal bull granting Catholic countries such as Spain and Portugal "full and free permission to invade, search out, capture, and subjugate the Saracens and pagans and any other unbelievers and enemies of Christ wherever they may be, as well as their kingdoms, duchies, counties, principalities, and other property ... and to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery."10 These last few words - to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery - sound not just sinister to us, but also psychotic. They make perfect sense, however, in a Christian context, given that the Bible is itself a heedlessly proslavery tome. — Michael Shermer

If a man tells a woman she's beautiful, she'll overlook most of his other lies! — Ashwin Sanghi

You taste like sex, Magdalena. And I'm a starved man. — Megan Mitcham

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything. — Duane Michals

More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball. — Mark McGwire

Why hasn't anyone opened a night club named 'No Drugs Allowed, Wink, Wink'? — Dov Davidoff

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses. — Milan Kundera