Cumberlands Blackboard Quotes & Sayings

I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use? — Georges Bernanos

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion. — Dweezil Zappa

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet. — Lee Marvin

If you love someone, why would you want that person to change? — Hailey Abbott

No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there. — Joshua Oppenheimer

We are little flames, inadequately sheltered by thin walls from the tempest of dissolution and insensibility in which we flicker and often are all but extinguished. — Erich Maria Remarque

I've loved you since we had that first long walk together, and I've never stopped loving you. I don't plan to ever stop loving you if you'll let me. — Vince O. Teves

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists - I wish to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings who are only the objects of pity and that kind of love, which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. — Mary Wollstonecraft

What I walk on is not the energy of youth, it is a better energy. I walk on the endless energy of inner peace that never runs out! When you become a channel through which God works there are no more limitations, because God does the work through you: you are the instrument - and what God can do is unlimited. When you are working for God you do not find yourself striving and straining. You find yourself calm, serene and unhurried. — Peace Pilgrim

People are scared to empty their minds
fearing that they will be engulfed by the void.
What they don't realize is that
their own mind is the void. — Huangbo Xiyun

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights. — Karl Liebknecht