Belanger Quotes & Sayings

Writing is the new reading — Emlyn Hall

Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled with historical curiosities and esoteric advice, the book explains legends, the paranormal, and the people who experience the fringe. Have fun, but don't get too close this book may be contagious. — Jeff Belanger

I always thought that if those psychic phone lines were for real, I could just call them and not say a word and the psychic on the other end of the phone would rattle off my vital statistics, then tell me all about my future. — Jeff Belanger

I don't think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that's all there is. But, you know, it's just glitter. My friends who I've known since I was 17 - they know who I am. — Kelis

First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert our attention away from concrete realities. Idealizations tend to be partial and distorting, obscuring the heterogeneity and complexity of actual experiences and concrete practices, which is why they do not provide an adequate standpoint for the diagnosis of social problems and injustices. — Jose Medina

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. — Oliver Sacks

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped. — Paul Rodriguez

Anyone can say the love someone ... It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love. — Jessica Jung

Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no other landmark ever could But Michael Kleen understands that these ghosts are more than just stories. As a folklorist and historian, Kleen shows readers the connection between our past and our present. Haunting Illinois is more than just a ghostly travel guide, it's an adventure offering new insight on the haunts you know, but also takes you on a trip to the spirits in your own backyard. — Jeff Belanger

I lived with the shadows, knowing only they would truly understand what I was feeling. — Nicole Belanger

They've been changing the cry from 'global warming' to 'climate change' because there's so little evidence there's actually any warming going on. I believe that as little as a decade from now, global warming will be recognized as one of the greatest swindles in world history. It has so little scientific basis, it can only rationally be considered a political scam. — Doug Casey

find that if in a hurry, it is always better to acquiesce with my wife than to make an argument. — Derrick Belanger

A company finds its destiny by answering three questions: 'Who are we?,' 'What do we stand for?,' and 'How do we serve?,' — Tom Chappell

The greatest safety lies in putting all your eggs in one basket and watching the basket. — Gerald M. Loeb

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks — Clive James

We're like goldfields. Until we dig deep to find what's inside us, our true potentials may be hidden forever. — Israelmore Ayivor

Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care? — Sarah Dessen

Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music! — Jeff Belanger

It seemed like today's culture placed the value of life below so many other things that have little importance in the long run. — Nancy Carabio Belanger

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Faith is a quiet certainty that there is both a higher purpose to life and a higher power that oversees that purpose. Faith is knowing that we do not have to go it alone during our darkest hours and, even when we feel utterly victimized and weak, there is still something brighter, purer, and more potent than anything we can imagine that cares enough to reach out and offer a shoulder for us to lean upon. The object of faith takes many forms and many names, but the universal truth is faith itself. — Michelle Belanger

I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground. — Brenna Yovanoff

Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for! — Jeff Belanger