Bomonti Residence Quotes

#1. What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.

Christian Wiman

#2. It's "I felt bad," not "I felt badly," because "to feel badly" would mean "to grope about ineptly." The verb "felt" - definitely a verb of the senses, though not on Gordon's list - fuses the "bad" to the subject, rather than simply using an adverb to modify itself.

Mary Norris

#3. Sexual desire is only the frustrated desire to eat human flesh.

Christopher Frayling

#4. The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

Fridtjof Nansen

#5. I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Billy Wilder

#6. Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

Toni Morrison

#7. Smiling just to see the smile upon your face. These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive.

Edwin McCain

#8. It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Horace

#9. There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

John Dewey

#10. If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.

Victoria Osteen

#11. Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

Abe Lemons

#12. Unbeknownst to most of its dormant and otherwise distracted inhabitants, one beautiful tiny blue sphere, spinning through the dark cloak of galactic space, was clearly under siege.

Patricia Cori

#13. Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.

Adam Langer

#14. [..] the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity [..]

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