Box And Cox Quotes

Democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint.

Words are beautiful things. They hold meaning, they reveal meaning, and they give us the power to express meaning. Words are also keys that unlock the world. Every time we read a book to a child, we are holding out a new box of interesting and useful keys for them to collect: a tumble of shapes and colors in which they may discover vintage keys, copper-colored pin-tumblers, tubular keys, double-sided keys, grand brass lever-lock keys. The variety of the keys they find, by its very existence, hints at the wideness of possibility in the world.

the doctor grabbed a clean pair of sterile gloves from the box mounted on the wall under the television

Curiosity killed the cat”. I had been one of those annoying children who constantly asked why after being told anything. It seemed that even as an adult I couldn’t let things go. I had to dig deeper. I had to find out why.

While they go get the others, I figure out the details. The system I’ve set up is intended to "process’’ matches. It does this by moving a quantity of match sticks out of their box, and through each of the bowls in succession. The dice determine how many matches can be moved from one bowl to the next. The dice represent the capacity of each resource, each bowl; the set of bowls are my dependent events, my stages of production. Each has exactly the same capacity as the others, but its actual yield will fluctuate somewhat.

Corey couldn’t help feeling like he and Angelo were two pieces of the same puzzle. They might have come from different places in the box, upside down and backwards and camouflaged under a cluster of different colors and shapes. But in the end, none of that mattered. As long as the pieces fit...

You know, I normally hate sardines,’ said Ivy. ‘But for some reason I can eat no end of them at a midnight feast.’ ‘Well, save some for the rest of us!’ laughed Ivy.

Those words, spoken aloud, rang like a heavy bell in Tyler’s ears. All these tangled emotions, the insatiable need for sex, the constant worry over Tim’s well-being. Wanting to change his own life to make himself more compatible with Tim’s. He’d felt it all, and still never thought to place it inside that box. Falling in love.

Gillian decided to take up a place at music college,