Blackthorne Tx Quotes & Sayings

We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don't quite believe it. — Nora Ephron

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line. — Colin Quinn

The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. — David Icke

Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions ... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert ... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff. — Lord Chesterfield

My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark. — Rabindranath Tagore

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process. — Jim Rohn

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience, — John Toshack

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune. — Eden Phillpotts

The common man cannot see things objectively because his mind is clouded by anxiety about achieving his goals. Seeing clearly means not projecting our goals into the world. — John Gray

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore. — Ian McKellen

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you ... — Giuseppe Mazzini

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird. — Shigeru Miyamoto

There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief. — Wasif Ali Wasif

The square root of I is I. — Vladimir Nabokov