Blanton Quotes & Sayings

I'm more interested in lookin' forward than back. The past is done and there's no changin' it. — Heather Blanton

We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people. — Brad Blanton

The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination. — Brad Blanton

The reason for forgiving your enemies is not for their benefit but for your own benefit. Holding grudges against other people doesn't hurt them; doesn't even bother them much - in fact, even pleases them if they are still mad at you. It is not in your enlightened self-interest to hold grudges, regardless of whether it bothers the person you hate or not. — Brad Blanton

We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once. — Ray Blanton

It's probably the meaning of the Resurrection: love dies to be reborn. When we let die our attachments to remembrances, expectations, moral imperatives, evaluations, comparisons, self-images, beliefs about how others should behave, ideals, and even romance, we make ourselves clearings for love's rebirth. — Brad Blanton

A mind is a terrible thing; waste it. — Brad Blanton

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth. — Ray Blanton

I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker ... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats. — Jaco Pastorius

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it. — Ray Blanton

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world. — Kirby Bliss Blanton

Men fight like men. Women fight like unchained demons. — Heather Blanton

I hear that I'm funny, and I think I'm funny, but I go in all the time for multicam, and they say that I'm not big enough, or I'm too big. I'm so confused. Okay, well, I'm funny in real life. — Kirby Bliss Blanton

I have friends, I'm from Texas originally, and they follow me and they keep up with what I'm doing. — Kirby Bliss Blanton

I am what I am... but for the first time in my life, I'm sorry for it. — Heather Blanton

It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love. — Heather Blanton

Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life. — Brad Blanton

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage. — Smiley Blanton

In the middle sat Brad Blanton. He was a large man. His shirt, open to his chest, was yellow-white, like his hair. With his sunburned face, he looked like a red ball abandoned in dirty snow. — Jon Ronson

According to Hugh Thomas, author of 'A History of the World', the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The greatest psychological advance in history is just around the corner and will also have to do with cleaning up. Cleaning up lies and "coming out of the closet" is getting more attention these days. Some day we will look back on these years of suffocation in bullsh*t in the same way we look back on all the years people lived in, and died from, their garbage. — Brad Blanton

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. — Smiley Blanton

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger. — Smiley Blanton

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. — Smiley Blanton

It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago. — Smiley Blanton

I like 'The Big Lebowski'. The Dude is my man. My brother and I can quote that. — Kirby Bliss Blanton

One of the best pieces of advice we've heard for spotting potentially abusive people (spouses, dates, friends etc.) is to watch how they treat waiters and waitresses. No one expects you to become friends or even chatty with your server, but a waiter or waitress is a professional too and deserves to be treated with the same respect as a peer. — Becky Blanton

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. — Smiley Blanton

Politeness and diplomacy are responsible for more suffering and death than all the crimes of passion in history. Fuck politeness. Fuck diplomacy. Tell the truth. — Brad Blanton

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence — Smiley Blanton

For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive. — Smiley Blanton

The best part about living with Mamaw was that I began to understand what made her tick. Until then, I had resented how rarely we traveled to Kentucky after Mamaw Blanton's death. The — J.D. Vance

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do. — Brad Blanton

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it. — Smiley Blanton

Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam. — Heather Blanton

Love is when you let someone be the way they are. — Brad Blanton

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'. — Smiley Blanton

Could he really want a relationship with a woman who was at the point in life of trading beauty for wisdom? — Heather Blanton

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny. — Smiley Blanton

You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor. — Smiley Blanton

I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too. — Kirby Bliss Blanton

I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends. — Kirby Bliss Blanton

Indeed, women like Peterman who admitted they joined the army for adventure as opposed to patriotism or love were often viewed with skepticism and derision by the press because their actions and motivations failed to conform to accepted romantic and cultural ideals. — DeAnne Blanton And Lauren M. Cook

I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging. — Heather Blanton

For my own good, I want to hang out with people who want to find out what it would be like to live in such a way as to leave no unspoken words, no unfinished business; I want to be with people who are hungry for the truth, who want to spend time learning and sharing what they have learned rather than defending their images or reputations. — Brad Blanton

The truth be told, Lord, I don't like you very much right now. — Heather Blanton

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane. — Smiley Blanton

I just wanna be a DJ! — Kirby Bliss Blanton

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive. — Heather Blanton