Kirkyards Quotes & Sayings

Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself. — Swami Vivekananda

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being. — Mary Midgley

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'. — Peter Benenson

If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion. — James Hogg

When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean. — Frank Luntz

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me. — David Keith

Keep in mind that when you're working with your family, "slow" is "fast" and "fast" is — Stephen R. Covey

I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.' — Becky G

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. — Dave Van Ronk

When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense. — Henry Rollins

Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship. — Lee Radziwill

Honor our sense of right and wrong
our sense of what others need from us and how we ought to act towards them ... Because we go against this sense
because we fail to act as we feel we should
that we grow resentful and feel alienated. We convince ourselves that others are making our lives intolerable. On the other hand, when we treat them as we feel we should, we have no occasion to feel this way. We can care openly for them because caring, not selfishness, is our "natural" condition (in computer jargon, our "default setting"). We alienate ourselves from theirs when we compromise our integrity, and we care for them when we don't. — C. Terry Warner

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education — John Legend