Blanchette Bridge Quotes & Sayings

peace is not about the absence of conflict but it is about the presence of sincerity. — Toge Aprilianto

Sure, genetics do play a role in alcholism. You're more likely to be an alcoholic if one or both of your parents are also alcoholics. But that's just one part of the equation; the other part is your behavior. You can't become an alcoholic if you never take a drink. So if you know you're predisposed to addiction because of your family history, then just don't get started, and you'll never find yourself on that path.
Same with any other type of 'family curse.' If you parents smoke, don't pick up a cigarette. If your parents are obese, work hard to exercise and eat right so you don't follow in their foosteps. But some people find it easier to play the victim. They do whatever bad habits they want to because they think they have a built-in defense - I grew up this way. — Gaby Rodriguez

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections. — A.B. Simpson

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra. — Max Roach

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody! — Josh Turner

My days could be described as an ever changing palette of blues, greens, browns, and golds. Mostly because of surfing and garden-gazing. On tour, the colors are desaturated by florescent lights and dull grey carpets. — Jason Mraz

One is almost tempted to say ... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most convenient fiction which, as we have seen, is convenient both to experimental and theoretical chemists. — Charles Coulson

Something irrevocable has happened. A circle has been cast on the
waters; a chain is imposed. We shall never flow freely again. — Virginia Woolf

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective. — Henry David Thoreau

There is no re-inventing the wheel. — Sean Penn

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day. — Dave Pelzer

Death makes cynics of us all — Simon Critchley

My understanding is that Mago Castle is not a physical place but a symbol of the state of human consciousness and energy that is completely one with divinity. In that sense Mago Castle is inside us.
In this tale of Mago Castle I found the part about the 'Vow of Restoration' deeply moving, for it shows us what human beings deep down inside really want to become and where they want to return. — Ilchi Lee