Burlando Quotes & Sayings

All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe. — Kathryn Stockett

There's something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either. — Yasmin Mogahed

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again! — Julie Bowen

The more you focus on the positive and the beauty around you, the more positive and peaceful your life will be. — Debasish Mridha

Owning her face, unapologetically, or - even more revolutionarily - happily was the bravest thing she could possibly do. — Georgia Clark

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful. — Jeff Tweedy

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence ... Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth. — Benjamin Cardozo

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. — Karl Kraus

A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got discovered and became an actor, so I guess a friend bought me a winning lottery ticket. — Chris Pratt

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good. — Carl Sagan

Never allow your possessions to possess you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept. — Claude McKay

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time. — Judy Woodruff

We used to stay inside for recess
because outside was worse — Shane Koyczan

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium. — Dhirubhai Ambani