Corkille Quotes & Sayings

Celebrate Your Self — Dorothy Corkille Briggs

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather. — William Hamilton

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you. — Charles Spurgeon

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. — Dorothy Corkille Briggs

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor. — John Norquist

Our birthday is celebrated every year to commemorate the very first instant we came into the world, and a funeral is held to mark the day we leave it. But lately I've been wondering ... what can be said of all the moments in between our birth and our death? The moments when we are reborn ... — Taylor Swift

I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together
it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."
"But you're doing it now
in a way."
"Yes, in a way
that's how I always say things: in a way. — Andre Aciman

They had a ... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available. — Clive James

Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead. — Anita Roddick

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me. — William Shatner

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective. — Dennis Prager

Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now. — Peter Matthiessen

Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset. — Jack Vance

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion. — Dorothy Corkille Briggs

Knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth. — Tom Stoppard

I didn't move for probably ten more minutes. I wasn't sure if I could. If I moved, I just might shatter. — J.C. Daniels