Mark Belling Quotes & Sayings

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store. — Quincy Jones

I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace. — Jim Cantalupo

After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one. — Anthony Liccione

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne. — Madonna Ciccone

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing
faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives. — Terry Tempest Williams

Supernatural horror was one of the ways we found that would allow us to live with our double selves. By its employ, we discovered how to take all the things that victimize us in our natural lives and turn them into the very stuff of demonic delight in our fantasy lives. In story and song, we could entertain ourselves with the worst we could think of, overwriting real pains with ones that were unreal and harmless to our species. — Thomas Ligotti

The ultimate gift from your parents will be 'FREEDOM', freedom to chase your dreams. — Loknath

By the time that the war came to an end, British society was generally inclined to reject the idealistic case for imperialism (that it would extend the benefits of advanced civilization to a backward region) as quixotic, and the practical case for it (that it would be of benefit to Britain to expand her empire) as untrue. — David Fromkin

If black males are socialized from birth to embrace the notion that their manhood will be determined by whether or not they can dominate and control others and yet the political system they live within (imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy) prevents most of them from having access to socially acceptable positions of power and dominance, then they will claim their patriarchal manhood, through socially unacceptable channels. They will enact rituals of blood, of patriarchal manhood by using violence to dominate and control. — Bell Hooks

The writer is [ ... ] the work's way of getting itself written — Donald Barthelme

People get God and religion confused. I think God is a bit too hip to join any of his unauthorized fan clubs. — John Fugelsang

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning. — Marsilio Ficino