Blinken Secretary Quotes & Sayings

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent. — Jeff Buckley

The more raw, pure emotion you pour into your pages, the more your readers can wring out of them. — Christopher Holliday

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right. — Dick Cheney

The part of us that feels anger and depression is the same part that feels peace and love. If you refuse to feel the anger and the pain of a loss, you will not be able to feel anything else until that area heals. In other words, stay out of your own way. Let yourself feel bad if you want to feel bad. Feel joy, too. Healing is taking place. Give yourself the gift of healing. — Peter McWilliams

What a man hates, he takes seriously. — Michel De Montaigne

He had taken to asking himself WWPD? (What Would Pia Do?) — Thea Harrison

The older you get, the more you have to talk about, and music is a really good outlet. I've chilled on it a little bit, and I can't wait to see what I'm going to step into, now that I have this collection of things. — Selena Gomez

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. — Adi Shankara

I tell you what. Pick it up, open it anywhere, and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar. — Diana Gabaldon

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds. — J.G. Ballard

That day at school I prayed for the world to end. — Dave Pelzer

Justin Butterfield of Illinois, a Federalist-turned-Whig, said of the Mexican-American War, said, "I opposed one war and it ruined me. From now on I am for war, pestilence and famine. — Michael S. Green

Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful. — Josemaria Escriva

Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts. — Rajneesh

To love is to suffer in a fallen world. There are no safe investments, there are no safe relationships. In this world there are no investments of love that come with a guarantee that you will not be hurt and disappointed. — Philip Carlson