Balante Quotes & Sayings

Culture Clash
Dylan says
when I meet his mother today
I shouldn't mention
that I'm Jewish.
I say
okay, but can I
tell her about
the HIV postive thing?
He gives me a look.
I give him one back — Sonya Sones

Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving. — Mercedes Lackey

I didn't know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do. At the moments it should logically strike, I am fit as a fiddle. On a lazy afternoon, I am seized by a cold dread. — Lena Dunham

Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin

Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence. — Dada Bhagwan

I find I'm an old soul. — Rachel Roy

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. — Iyanla Vanzant

Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers — Miles Anthony Smith

Don't let yourself drown. Don't run or swim away from the safety of the boat. The boat, that's your home, your family, your life. The preserver that keeps you afloat will always be your wife, your partner. Without a preserver you drown, a preserver without something to hold onto has no purpose, so you see, you need each other ... you need to rely on one another for everything. Never forget that if it's not worth fighting for, it's not worth having. — Rachel Van Dyken

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds. — Mark Twain

The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I don't have to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I'm headed, I know it's exactly where I'm supposed to be. — Susane Colasanti

Only those who are bereaved of all joy in this present world may take refuge in the shadows of the past. — Julian May

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies. — Sam Altman

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music. — Vashti Bunyan

My Friend:
Art thou abroad on this stormy night
on thy journey of love, my friend?
The sky groans like one in despair.
I have no sleep tonight.
Ever and again I open my door and look out on
the darkness, my friend!
I can see nothing before me.
I wonder where lies thy path!
By what dim shore of the ink-black river,
by what far edge of the frowning forest,
through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading
thy course to come to me, my friend? — Rabindranath Tagore