Bleakly Honest Quotes & Sayings

From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture. — Melinda Blanchard

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale. — G.K. Chesterton

I have absolute faith that anything can come to one who trusts to the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that is within, so long as one works within the law, always gives more to others than they expect, and does it cheerfully and courteously. — Walter Russell

The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get. — Stephen Covey

A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. — Sherman Alexie

The human moral keyboard is limited, Adam One used to say: there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes. — Margaret Atwood

Joy is something we receive - not something we earn. — Holley Gerth

They had reached Lockhart's classroom ... 'You could've fried an egg on your face said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.'
'Shut up,' snapped Harry. The last thing he needed was for Lockhart to hear the phrase 'Harry Potter fan club. — J.K. Rowling

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? — Ralph Waldo Emerson