Balgenia Quotes & Sayings

The really big challenge is delivering the social justice agenda in the Belfast Agreement, which hasn't been delivered. — Mike Nesbitt

The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools. — Abhijit Naskar

I had no expectation. I had no expectation of goin' anywhere in my life. I had no expectation of ever amounting to anythin'. I didn't expect you. I didn't expect us." "Ayuh? — Lex Chase

The only possible match for someone who doesn't know how to receive is someone who doesn't know how to give. — Amanda Owen

Markets really matter. Because the bigger the market, the more targets there are for the missile to hit. — Josh Kopelman

It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can. — Sebastian Barry

Why target two and a half million innocent newborns and children?" Barbara Loe Fisher asks of the hep B vaccine. The implication behind the word innocent is that only those who are not innocent need protection from disease. All of us who grew up during the AIDS epidemic were exposed to the idea that AIDS was a punishment for homosexuality, promiscuity, and addiction. But if disease is a punishment for anything, it is only a punishment for being alive. When I was a child, I asked my father what causes cancer and he paused for a long moment before saying, "Life. Life causes cancer." I took this as an artful dodge until I read Siddhartha Mukherjee's history of cancer, in which he argues not only that life causes cancer but that cancer is us. "Down to their innate molecular core," Mukherjee writes, "cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves." And this, he notes, "is not a metaphor. — Eula Biss

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out. — Chris Evans

If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem. — Patch Adams

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common. — CrimethInc.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful. — Samuel Johnson

What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Effortlessness is an attractive thing. And it takes a lot of effort to achieve it. — Portia De Rossi