Bruce Ballenger Quotes & Sayings

Personal integrity comes from integrating our life experiences with our belief systems — Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I felt the bark of the trees on either side of me as I walked. It was very soothing. Here in the LBA Woods, the trees grew very close together and when I did not walk on the path, I would reach out with my fingertips and touch their bark as I passed. The skin of the trees was warm in the sunlight, and rough, and I imagined that each tree contained a soul. Like an Ent. I knew this idea was not a true thing, but still I felt good that the trees were here. — Ned Hayes

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there. — William Temple

Faith and politics are now one and the same," he went on. "Perhaps it was always so, but it seems to have reached new extremes in our troubled century, do you not think? A man's religion tells me where his political loyalties lie, far more than his place of birth or his language. — S.J. Parris

You have to concentrate on the swing. — Miguel Cabrera

I climbed aboard and took it in my hand, not realizing that I would keep it and view it several thousand times over the years. I would watch the places where we intersect, and marvel at what the girl saw and how she survived. That is the best I can do- watch it fall into line with everything else I spectated during that time. — Markus Zusak

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. — Tom Holt

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. — Wislawa Szymborska

Our comedies are not to be laughed at. — Samuel Goldwyn

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me. — Alfre Woodard

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written. — Irwin Shaw