Burrandowan Quotes & Sayings

I could use all the confidence I could get. If possible, I would steal some from the egotistical Chase. He had more than enough to spare. — J.L. Weil

But now that was all gone by, and had left her neither happier nor wiser; and the best she could do with her mornings was to come up here into the cold church and juggle for a slice of heaven. — Robert Louis Stevenson

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing. — Gail Carriger

To be spontaneous is to escape the cage of the ego by trusting that which is beyond the self. — John O'Donohue

I have seen the paintings from the air brushed by the hand of God. — Lonestar

Choose your battles - small enough to win but big enough to matter. — Carlos Wallace

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us. — Dallas Willard

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct. — Charles Caleb Colton

He had always thought her beautiful - for a peasant girl. But with that golden hair falling around her, it made her face and eyes glow like some kind of enchantment. He was thinking like an addle-headed knave. — Melanie Dickerson

There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists. — Ennio Flaiano

You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell. — Brian McKnight

So summer waited for open water, and the tardy Yukon took to stretching of days and cracking its stiff joints. Now an air-hole ate into the ice, and ate and ate; or a fissure formed, and grew, and failed to freeze again. Then the ice ripped from the shore and uprose bodily a yard. But still the river was loth to loose its grip. It was a slow travail, and man, used to nursing nature with pigmy skill, able to burst waterspouts and harness waterfalls, could avail nothing against the billions of frigid tons which refused to run down the hill to Bering Sea. — Jack London

You control what you can control - your image, the way you conduct yourself, the way you let men talk to and approach you - and use that to get the relationship you want. — Steve Harvey

Everything I had I gave to alcohol. — Alcoholics Anonymous