Colin Blakely Quotes & Sayings

I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing.
~ Michelle Jarvis — Gregg Olsen

Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat. — Angie Martinez

Is not profitable on a day of wrath, but righteousness rescues from death. — Anonymous

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle, and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm. For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased, and I turned away with disgust and loathing. — Mary Shelley

There is the easy way and there is my way. — Teresa Mummert

Nothing is too hard for our Lord God. Jesus is "the light of the world" (John 9:5) and "the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it" (John 1:5). In other words, he can handle this, even when - or especially when - we can't. — Vicki Tiede

It wasn't as easy for others to accept the darker side of themselves. Most like to cling to the notion that hesitation still marked the presence of morality. Deep down we were all just selfish animals. We liked to take ... or be taken. — Teresa Mummert

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love. — Alice Walker

women had to be controlled and kept from going wild because of their inherent susceptibility to lust; thus men had to exercise aidos, "shame," and sophrosyne, "soundness of mind," to keep women from transgressing the bounds of propriety. — Thomas Van Nortwick

I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers. — Rabindranath Tagore

Even though love was biting her in the ass. Oh, wait. That was Colin grasping her rear. — Lauren Blakely

Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay. — Aravind Adiga

We human beings are macroscopic structures in a universe whose laws reside at a microscopic level. As survival-seeking beings, we are driven to seek efficient explanations that make reference only to entities at our own level. We therefore draw conceptual boundaries around entities that we easily perceive, and in so doing we carve out what seems to us to be reality. — Douglas R. Hofstadter

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. — Mark Twain

Bananas?"
He nodded with a small grin. "I discovered about those years ago that I absolutely hate those damn things."
"But they're just bananas."
"They're the fruit of the devil."
A surprised laugh burst out of me. "That's ridiculous."
The half grin spread and the dimple appeared. "It's the truth. Now it's your turn. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I've never been good at sharing my toys. — Teresa Mummert

Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak. — Teresa Mummert

Patience, little one. I want to take my time with you. — Teresa Mummert

The brain could go just about anywhere with anything. — Kristen Heitzmann

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. — Louis D. Brandeis

Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her
first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider
everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for
love, if they can. — Jane Austen