Banaszak Holl Quotes & Sayings

A coherent system is a convenient lie. — Marty Rubin

You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up. — Gene Mauch

The world is not changing if you don't shoulder the burden of responsibility. — Ai Weiwei

Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. — Barack Obama

Kindness is always fashionable. — Amelia Barr

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. — Ambrose Bierce

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible. — Carmen Agra Deedy

Without thought he repeated some words which a boy had once chalked on the blackboard between lessons: 'A lump of coal is better than nothing. Nothing is better than God. Therefore a lump of coal is better than God'. And then he traced his own name with his finger on the cracked and broken floor. — Peter Ackroyd

I froze all night. My back's killing me. I want home, and I'm scared to death. But I guess the view makes it all worth it."
"You're funny," Angel said — Jayde Scott

The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of bliss before the Fall. This love of idleness has remained the same in the fallen man, but the curse still lies heavy on the human race ... because our moral nature is such that we are unable to be idle and at peace. p 590 — Leo Tolstoy

He looked at her. That was the first time I had seen him give her a direct and explicit look, and, since she was just off the line from him to me, I had a good view of it. It demolished one detail of his exposition - the claim that a man of his training and temperament couldn't possibly commit a murder. His look at her was perfect for a guy about to put a cord around a neck and pull tight. It was just one swift, ugly flash, and then he returned to Wolfe. — Rex Stout

Learning many things does not teach understanding — Heraclitus

All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can't be touched. — Octavio Paz

The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy. — T. B. H. Stenhouse