Burtland Jones Quotes & Sayings

You want to set me free? Do it. You want to turn me in? You can do that too. You're the only one with the choice. And that bullet in your back doesn't mean you've got any less choice than you ever did. Live free of fear if you want to. We all carry something inside us that could kill us; yours just has a name. You want to change your life? Change it. You have no less of a right to be happy than the rest of us. — Greer Macallister

When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable. — Karen Salmansohn

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others. — Jodi Picoult

With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that. — Anton Corbijn

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy. — Billy Hughes

The next time you have a quarrel with me, I'd appreciate it if you could just talk to me first before resorting to pelting me with rocks. — Susan Ee

The consistent and persistent man of average intelligence is more likely to succeed than an erratic and lazy genius. — Om Swami

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. — Phillips Brooks

I don't know where to stop, or how to go on. I stop when I shouldn't. I go on when I should stop. There is weariness. But there is also defiance. Together they define me these days. Together they steal my sleep, and together they restore my soul. There are plenty of problems with no solutions in sight. Friends turn into foes. If not vocal ones, then silent, reticent ones. But I've yet to see a foe turning into a friend. There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . . — Arundhati Roy

The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity. — Maria Montessori