Balkanya Quotes & Sayings

like an idiot pitching change into a well that nobody ever said was open for wishing. — Kathleen Rooney

But in the end it is only a passing thing ... this shadow. Even darkness must pass. - Samwise Gamgee, The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien

But all those weeks with Nate, however fake they might have been, did do one thing for me. Whether the rest of world saw me that way, I knew now that I was strong, and I was beautiful, just the way I was. And girls like me needed gorgeous clothes too. — Alessandra Thomas

These people need a hero, Slade thought, with a sigh. And I'm running out of Twinkie. — Sara King

It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play. — John Henry Patterson

We had, I felt, bared small pieces of our symmetrical souls to each other, fast, as if playing one of those breathless card games, and I had pretended to be as moved as I had been the first time I uncovered it all myself, back in East Hampton. — Olivia Sudjic

I've been checking you out since we were freshmen."
"Why??"
"Do you even have to ask?" I laugh as a string of colorful handkerchiefs falls into my hand when I pull it from his pocket. — Cassie Mae

It's exhausting, trying to make a bad person act good. You can see why it's so much easier for them to be bad. — David Levithan

Sign up for the daily work, not the payoff. — Felicia Day

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. — Newt Gingrich

I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in. — Robert Greenblatt

He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it. — Gary McCord

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too. — Mark Twain

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue! — Patrick W. Corrigan

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers. — Jim Costa