T.C. Boyle Quotes

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.

For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person.

We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.

Recent surveys show 3 out of 10 men have a problem with premature ejaculation. The rest just didn't really think it was a problem!

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die.

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by reading out of a telephone directory... He's a spastic.

Do you think George Bush actually knows who Gordon Brown is? He probably just thinks Tony Blair's put on weight and had a mild stroke.

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

I live in a flat with 3 women, I call it surround sound. I keep the ugly one behind the sofa as a woofer.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.

One of the most beautiful ways you can give is giving of yourself and your time.

Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?