Blackbutt Quotes & Sayings

Any time a little midget does something like this, you gotta give him a 10!. — Charles Barkley

You Never Have a Second Chance for a First Good Impression — Doris-Maria Heilmann

Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired. — Michel Templet

I'v planted my seeds for my upcoming events.
but right now, Im just waiting for them to bloom — P.C. Cast

The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility, ... — Gautama Buddha

I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night. — Frederick Lenz

Every jump of technical progress leaves the relative intellectual development of the masses a step behind, and thus causes a fall in the political-maturity thermometer. It takes sometimes tens of years, sometimes generations, for a people's level of understanding gradually to adapt itself to the changed state of affairs, until it has recovered the same capacity for self-government as it had already possessed at a lower stage of civilization. — Arthur Koestler

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms. — Stephen Dobyns

Well Dennis you don't have to hear any
of the mountain music they play here.
Telling the young lies so that they can learn to get old.
Favouring them
with biscuits. "It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to
Danville, declension on a three mile grade." In either case
collision course. You either pick up the music or you don't. — Jack Spicer

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it. — Brian Greene

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that. — Brooklyn Sudano

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate. — John Stossel

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason. — Clare Of Assisi