Balliet School Quotes & Sayings

The truth is this: life is empty. However, help is available. If you know from the outset, it's almost as if life's not really meaningless at all. — Haruki Murakami

Vhalla reached out and grabbed the prince's bandaged hand, clinging to it. His right hand, the hand that had written her letters, the hand that had tangled itself into her hair as she slept, the hand that held her face when he kissed her; it was a wonderful hand of endless possibilities that now rested completely limp in her grasp. — Elise Kova

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. — Malcolm Gladwell

We don't share our thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them, Hollywood adaptations of those thoughts dumbed down for the PG-13 crowd. — Jonathan Tropper

I don't care what you write man, just make sure you make us sound sexy. Say that we looked like we'd just come from the beach and that our bodies were glistening. Say we got no hair on our chests. Anything so the girls will like us. — Nathan Followill

But they took readily to Shakespeare, as all children do when he is not made horrible with parsing and analysing. — George Orwell

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage. — Tod Machover

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes. — Matthew Reilly

If you love somebody, tell them. If there is conflict, let it go and fight instead for peace. Break the numb false silence and break the distance too. Laugh and cry and apologize and start again. This life is short and fragile but friendship is among the greatest miracles. — Jamie Tworkowski

The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior. — Swami Vivekananda

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all. — Julian Jaynes

On a good day, I'm a first class prick, but even I know that being treated like you're disposable is something no one should ever be used to. — Melyssa Winchester

Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude? — Derek R. Audette