Balstone Quotes & Sayings

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits. — Paolo Bacigalupi

People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those who are rich and privileged. — Noam Chomsky

Her heart grew eyes — Krysten Hill

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in. — Lu Xun

She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him want to try. — Thea Harrison

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it. — Adrien Brody

Everyone has an opinion of some sort. When you yield to someone's opinion, you actually give them a type of subliminal power over you. They have the ability to string your emotions along because of their approval or disapproval. God's opinion is the only one that should matter but that is not always the case. Many people are influenced by peers, in one way or another.

21 Day Journey of Inspiration — T.K. Ware

To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist. — Diane Coyle

Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us. — Rabindranath Tagore

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease. — Eric Hoffer

My word is my honor. — Rachel Vincent

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Their lives revolved around evil acts; some within their control, and some not. Some of them weren't born with the capacity for kindness, and others found it better to spare no compassion for anyone in this cruel world because they felt none would be given to them. Fate deals a bad hand to some folks. Some people are just doomed to be no good. — Ramsey Isler