Ballews Quotes & Sayings

Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so - for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth. — Gretchen Rubin

What is impossible with man is child's play with God. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm a work in progress. You know, my kids didn't come with instructions ... and neither did this business, so when I put the two of them together, I gotta take it a little at a time. — Niecy Nash

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine. — Joe Montana

Always be curious and ask questions"
"Always find the answers to questions"
"Never take anything for granted"

In the matter where NoBody becomes SomeBody and SomeBody becomes NoBody; and wherein some matters matter — Cge

No, I don't do drugs anymore, either. But I'll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I'll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it's not a very popular idea, you don't hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth: I had a great time doing drugs. Sorry. Never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife or kids, laughed my ass off, and went about my day. — Bill Hicks

Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another. — Victor Hugo

The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning. — Kenneth Goldsmith

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. — Charles Lyell

At a dinner party in north London, I listened to friends bragging about buying Porsches with their bonuses and sending out from their offices for pizzas and clean shirts because they were clinching a deal and could not leave their desks. I wanted to tell them of a place where every family had lost a son or a husband or had a leg blown off, almost every child seen someone die in a rocket attack and where a small boy had told me his dream was to have a brightly coloured ball. But, when I began to talk about Afghanistan, I watched eyes glaze and felt as if I was trying to have a conversation about a movie no one else had seen. — Christina Lamb

The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can't seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal. — Deb Caletti

How sick are you? Holy crap. Are you dying or something? Is that why you're going on
a retreat and eating only lettuce? — Maisey Yates

Now I am here - now read me - give me a name. — Carl Sandburg

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not. — Jack Nicholson