Karilyn Bales Quotes & Sayings

My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog. — Gary Delaney

[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer. — William J. Clinton

If education causes better economic understanding, there is an argument for education subsidies - albeit not necessarily higher subsidies than we have now.62 If the connection is not causal, however, throwing money at education treats a symptom of economic illiteracy, not the disease. You would get more bang for your buck by defunding efforts to "get out the vote."63 One intriguing piece of evidence against the causal theory is that educational attainment rose substantially in the postwar era, but political knowledge stayed about the same.64 — Bryan Caplan

Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries of aircraft about to take to the skies. These screens implied a feeling of infinite and immediate possibility: they suggested the ease with which we might impulsively approach a ticket desk and, within a few hours, embark for a country where the call to prayer rang out over shuttered whitewashed houses, where we understood nothing of the language and where no one knew our identities. — Alain De Botton

To be the altar boy at the first Mass of the day was a sacred initiation rite. It was like being hazed at a fraternity, only more Catholic. — Ian Morgan Cron

I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too. — Lisa Loeb

Stay sunny, we said to each other.
Because if you don't the whole world will know you're a monster. — Katie Alender

To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths. — Laozi

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries. — Mary Catherwood

Your needs are big because the Internet is big. — Jamie Zawinski

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear. — Jamaica Kincaid

it was easier to live without
something you've never had, because you didn't know what you were missing, but once you've had
something it was difficult giving it up. — Cora Reilly

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? — Mary Wollstonecraft

Relationships are like muscle tissue. The more they're engaged, the stronger they become. The ability to build relationships and flex that emotional connection muscle is what makes social so valuable. — Ted Rubin

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? — Alexander Pope