Blessington Farm Quotes

#1. Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

Joan Didion

#2. In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

Virginia Johnson

#3. Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Phil McGraw

#4. Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. Helen, why do you stay with a girl whom everybody believes to be a liar?'
'Everybody, Jane? Why, there are only eighty people who have heard you called so, and the world contains hundreds of millions.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

Vivien Leigh

#7. What are the messages that you are entertaining?

Asa Don Brown

#8. To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

Phillip E. Johnson

#9. Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#10. To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.

Charles Dickens

#11. The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

Patti Davis

#12. No leader or organization can achieve breakout growth until it treats, "we've always done it this way" as an opportunity to think anew rather than as a reason to stop thinking. Keep in mind, tradition should be a guide, not a jailer.

Michael Josephson

#13. Six months into the bliss of edible sex, free-style music, challenging books and the company of an easy undemanding Bride, the fairy-tale castle collapsed into the mud and sand on which its vanity was built. And Booker ran away.

Toni Morrison

#14. We look to hide or change our feelings rather than realizing it is our thinking that needs to change. Try

Andrew Farley

#15. Unpleasant things are like the rain: sometimes they visit us, but there is no point in worrying about them while the sun shines.

Andrus Kivirahk