Blackthorns Academy Quotes

#1. For if a room that exists under the governance, authority, and intent of others seems smaller than it is, then a room that exists in secret can, regardless of its dimensions, seem as vast as one cares to imagine. Rising

Amor Towles

#2. Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Randy Alcorn

#3. My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

Deborah Kara Unger

#4. I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

Joan Collins

#5. Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.

Hillary Clinton

#6. Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

Cynthia Ozick

#7. The problem was that the government's appetite for money was so great that taxes soon needed to be levied on the middle class, and from there it kept trickling down.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#8. There's enchantment in a smile, did you know?
Shall I prove in a wink that it is so?
Watch my mouth grin wide and see,
How quick your lips smile back at me!

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time.

Margaret Atwood

#10. The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.

Laurence J. Peter

#11. We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.

Barbara Brennan

#12. Knowing that we should love is not enough. But when knowledge is applied through service, love can secure for us the blessings of heaven.

David B. Haight

#13. Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

George Bernard Shaw