Blustery Happy Thursday Quotes & Sayings

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering. — Gregory David Roberts

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. — Edmund Burke

Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life. — Deepak Chopra

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. — Alexander Pope

I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization. — George Carlin

Love is a rare and precious thing. Squander it at your peril. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers. — Francis Schaeffer

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My background in financial services and my experience as a state representative have given me the ability to identify our country's fiscal problems and find steps to remedy them. — Darlene Senger

[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect ... The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses. — Adolf Hitler

I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [ Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a different host every week and different musicians. I always thought, "This is great. I never expected to get this in the first place, so I'm just happy being here." — Kevin Nealon

As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is America after all; you have to play ball if you're going to play ball. — Dorian Missick

She deserved a man who could offer her the best of everything, not a lifetime of butcher's leftovers got on the cheap and a drop of condensed milk in her tea when they couldn't stretch to sugar. Jimmy was working hard to become that man, and as soon as he did, by God, he was going to marry her and never let her go. — Kate Morton

Truth is not always injured by fiction. — Charlotte Lennox