Bondurant Quotes

#1. Bondurant was no expert on where sex between consenting adults on cathedral grounds fit in the grand hierarchy of sins in the Catholic faith. But he figured it must be high up the ladder of mortal sins, ones that required serious contrition and confession to a priest. Bondurant

John Heubusch

#2. Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.

Tim Wise

#3. I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry ... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.

Stephen Fry

#4. It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

Gore Vidal

#5. A man who likes to get hit is the one to watch out for.

Matt Bondurant

#6. People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened.

Maureen Johnson

#7. The constant assertion of masculinity is always the most obvious tell of a fake. You do not constantly assert what you know you have.

Matt Bondurant

#8. Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.

Matt Bondurant

#9. I am a fireball of emotions and impulses; my zest for life is unquenchable. And I am either of only two things: Fire or Ice.

Trish Kaye Lleone

#10. He had focused so long on the precision of the word, the utterance that was most unfettered by artful manipulation, that the thing had become mere style.

Matt Bondurant

#11. Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

Charlie Munger

#12. Without that fear, we are all as good as dead.

Matt Bondurant

#13. Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Gary Sinise

#14. I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Pete Seeger

#15. Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

David Bohm

#16. I have lived temperately ... I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Andrew Sarris

#18. Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

Melissa Rosenberg

#19. It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face.

Matt Bondurant

#20. That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation.

Philip Reeve

#21. The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.

Matt Bondurant