Blanding Quotes & Sayings

But before going to bed, he fell on his knees and prayed a long time. In his fervent prayer he did not beseech God to lighten his darkness but only thirsted for the joyous emotion, which always visited his soul after the praise and adoration, of which his evening prayer usually consisted. That joy always brought him light untroubled sleep. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In his 1903 book 'Psychology of Advertising', [Walter Dill Scott] argued that 'the effect of modern advertising is not so much to convince as to suggest.' So-called reason-why advertising was a blunt instrument compared with 'atmosphere advertising', which would associate a product with the viewer's subconscious desired: to be well liked, to be healthy, to possess, to succeed. — Michael Blanding

We need balanced programs, balanced priorities on the fiscal side — Jason Furman

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing. — Duke Ellington

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you. — Suze Orman

Ray Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies. — Leo Fitzpatrick

My treasure chest is filled with gold.
Gold ... gold ... gold ...
Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold ...
Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold ...
Gold of the sunset ... gold of the dawn ... Gold of the showertrees on my lawn ...
Poet's gold and artist's gold ...
Gold that can not be bought or sold -
Gold. — Don Blanding

Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can. — Mary MacKillop

The artesian well of joy never runs dry. We clog it with our thoughts. — Don Blanding

While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves. — Rihanna

I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it! — Sinclair B. Ferguson

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. — John Milton

Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards! — Lewis Carroll

Do right and you will be conspicuous. — Mark Twain

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. — Don Blanding

You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it."
Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth.
"No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth. — Megan Whalen Turner

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality. — Alfred Austin

The past is perpetual youth to the heart. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon