Unbalancing Battlesong Quotes & Sayings

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on. — Joe Hill

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion. — Carlos Santana

A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet. — Theodore Roosevelt

These same ABCs couldn't speak Chinese and didn't care---but you don't have shit without your native tongue. African slaves were forced by threat of physical punishment to abandon their native languages, but a lot of us just gave ours up with a shrug---these Uncle Chans convinced us to assimilate, shut the fuck up, and play the part. What they didn't understand is that after your have the money and degrees, you can't buy your identity back. I wasn't worried about degrees, but I cared about my roots. Even if I hated what it meant to be an Asian in t he American wilderness, i respected the Chinese home I was raised in. Usually I wasn't so vocal about Asian identity, but without my parents around, I felt a sudden duty to say something myself. It's funny how annoying I thought my mom was, but as soon as she wasn't around, i carried the torch for her. — Eddie Huang

These are the days that must happen to you. — Walt Whitman

You can get used to anything, especially when you have no option. If you have to pay, you pay; it's just a question of attitude. At a particular moment in your life you adopt a certain position, whether mistaken or not. You decide to be like this or that. You burn your boats, and then all you can do is defend that position, come what may. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

I am become a blade. — Leigh Bardugo

Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life. — Sigmund Freud

Marry me," he said, his voice hoarse. "Share your life with me. Teach our children to ride ponies at twilight in search of fairies. — Vivienne Lorret

Beauty speaks of heaven to come, when all shall be beautiful. It haunts us with eternity. Beauty says, There is a glory calling to you. And if there is a glory, there is a source of glory. What great goodness could have possibly created this? What generosity gave us this to behold? Beauty draws us to God. — John Eldredge

God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart. — Edwin Percy Whipple

My real talent was for losing clients. — Jay Chiat