Blackledge Country Quotes & Sayings

When the loneliest place on earth is in your mind, move out! — Benny Bellamacina

You can have a striker who scores 50 goals in one season but if you win nothing it means nothing — Branislav Ivanovic

As soon as they prove to you, for instance, that you are descended from a monkey, then it is no use scowling, accept it for a fact. When they prove to you that in reality one drop of your own fat must be dearer to you than a hundred thousand of your fellow creatures, and that this conclusion is the final solution of all so-called virtues and duties and all such prejudices and fancies, then you have just to accept it, there is no help for it, for twice two is a law of mathematics. Just try refuting it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The more you hope the more you hurt. You drop a letter in a Holy Communion envelope in the postbox and already you are waiting for a reply. Human beings were built for response. But human nature can't tolerate too much waiting. Between the emotion and the response falls the shadow, T.S. Eliot said, and that was the principle that inspired texting, that came up with the shortest possible time, basically as fast as Sheila Geary's two thumbs could hammer ILY on a tiny keyboard and get Johnny Johnston's ILY2 back, so that between emotion and response now there wasn't all that much shadow. All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are. After the Yeats classes my father returned — Niall Williams

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living. — Bob Dole

I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong. — Devon Aoki

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid. — Laura Esquivel

If the old man looked at straight lines to keep his act together, I was going to stare at curved lines and go down in flames. — Natsuo Kirino

We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. — George W. Bush

I don't doubt that you think you love me; what I doubt is your understanding of love. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Naming a book after a person was a standard way of reflecting that person's beliefs or representing his or her school of thought. — Reza Aslan

The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years — Kerry Emanuel

Dear Lady Gaga , thank you for the wonderful tribute. Oh my god, it really warmed my heart! — Julie Andrews

I used to pray to be made stronger; now I pray to be made grateful. Every — Hope Jahren

The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle. — Mario J. Lucero