Blue Collar Brilliance Quotes & Sayings

Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child. — Steve Maraboli

I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction. — Alanis Morissette

I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped. — Marcia Gay Harden

The music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up ... — Mark Knopfler

We shall be better, braver, and
more active if we believe it right to
look for what we don't know. — Socrates

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be. — Jenny Slate

We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense. — Benjamin Carson

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron. — John Galsworthy

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then! — Henry David Thoreau

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region. — Reza Aslan

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it. — Peter Jennings

The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion. — Thomas Sowell