Blinken Confirmation Quotes & Sayings

By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words. — Napoleon Hill

Oh, you mean so we can coexist? What kind of let's-hold-hands hippie shit are you suggesting? — Blake Crouch

Things that are jailable crimes on one end of that spectrum become speeding tickets on the other. We find white people on the jail end and black people on the speeding ticket end, but for the most part ... well, for the most part, you know what I mean. That winking understanding we all share about who gets the book thrown at him and who doesn't, that's where American racism has gone: unspoken and hidden, but bureaucratized and automated, and therefore more powerful than ever. — Matt Taibbi

Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels. — Eban Goodstein

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. — Henry David Thoreau

What Grandma has told me about life: No one promised you a bucket of pansies, so don't be one. Everyone thinks a great life is one filled with fun and fluff. No, that's a pointless life. A great life is filled with challenges and adversity. It's how you knock the hell out of it that shows what kind of person you are. Keep a hand out to help someone up, but don't give them two hands or you'll enable them to be a weak and spineless jellyfish. Always look your best. Not for a man, that's ridiculous, what do they know? Nothing. They know nothing. It's for you. — Cathy Lamb

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants. — Russell Page

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal

I rose and moved towards him. You would have done the same yourself. It is an ancient matter. Something propels you towards sudden grief, or perhaps also sometimes repels. You move away. I moved towards it, I couldn't help it. — Sebastian Barry

But "common sense is not faith," Oswald Chambers had written, "and faith is not common sense. — Jan Karon

There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious. — Chrissie Wellington

After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.' — Blake Lively