Blessington Library Quotes & Sayings

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much. — George Whitefield

Society doesn't officially recognize friendship as an institution in the way it recognizes sexual relationships, so there's no real protocol for ending one. If you've been going out, dating, or just sleeping with someone for even a month or two an you want to stop seeing him, you're expected to have a conversation with him letting him know it and giving him some bogus explanation. This conversation is seldom pleasant, and it ranges in tone from brittle adult adult discussions in coffee shops to armed standoffs in day care centers, but once it's over, you at least know your status.

Because there's no formal etiquette for ending a friendship, most people do it in the laziest, most passive and painless way possible, by unilaterally dropping any effort to sustain it and letting the other person figure it out for themselves. — Tim Kreider

Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life. — Dan Millman

Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain. — John C. Maxwell

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament. — John Bercow

Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you. — Junot Diaz

If you accept working for 'peanuts' don't complain when you're treated like a monkey. — Rob Liano

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school. — Werner Herzog

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not
fearing to be wrong. — Peter McIntyre

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. — Michael Leunig