Top 29 Vonnegut Bokonon Quotes
#1. The privilege, and the challenges, of taking on Black Widow have never been lost on me. I worked on the first 'Spiderman' game as well as 'Fantastic Four,' and I had always wanted to be able to tell more of a character-driven comic book story than was possible to fit into a game narrative.
Margaret Stohl
#2. I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.
Joyce Meyer
#3. Oh, a very sorry people, yes,
Did I find here.
Oh, they had no music,
And they had no beer.
And, oh, everywhere
Where they tried to perch
Belonged to Castle Sugar, Incorporated,
Or the Catholic church.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
Kurt Vonnegut
#6. Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
Arthur Erickson
#8. There's no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
There's such a thing as keeping,
A remembrance in one's heart ...
Charlotte Bronte
#9. Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.
Kurt Vonnegut
#11. It gives us a look into a world that's very much like 'Traffic' was for drugs, this movie is for gun running. Dark at times, but I think Nic Cage is an incredible person to watch and very entertaining.
Jared Leto
#12. The saint maintains his piety through the graphic imagination of other people's vices. We thank him for it. The saint's impossible perfection allows us to go on being gargoyles while keeping our faith alive. We admire him for it. The saint's silence covers far more than our interpretations of it.
Ranjit Hoskote
#13. With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.
Max McKeown
#14. IF YOU FIND YOUR LIFE tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons," writes Bokonon, "that person may be a member of your karass." At
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#15. And what opinion did Bokonon hold of his own cosmogony?
"Foma! Lies!" he wrote. "A pack of foma!
Kurt Vonnegut
#16. SOMETIMES THE POOL-PAH," Bokonon tells us, "exceeds the power of humans to comment." Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as "shit storm" and at another point as "wrath of God.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. Are you going to take me for a ride or kiss me?"
He was going to do both, but the ride wasn't going to be in his car. Kiril released her. "Get in.
Donna Grant
#18. I thought this was trash.
Of course it's trash! says Bokonon.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. Maturity, Bokonon tells us, is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
Kurt Vonnegut
#23. Live by the foma1 that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. The Books of Bokonon. I: 5
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.
Kurt Vonnegut
#25. The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."
Bokonon's paraphrase was this:
"Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
Kurt Vonnegut
#27. The Bible views us as recipients of God's perfect love, already charged with an important life mission (seeking first the kingdom of God), and thus the decision to marry, though crucial, won't define us. Nor will who we marry define us.
Gary L. Thomas
#28. I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.
Roseanne Barr
#29. Live by the foma(Harmless untruths) that make you brave
and kind and healthy and happy.
Kurt Vonnegut
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