Brignoni Ponce Quotes

#1. The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a better instrument for living together with other men. This sense of identity is the root by which all honest creative effort is fed.

Jay Saunders Redding

#2. To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

Christopher Paolini

#3. Chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

James Hansen

#4. I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries ...

David Stockman

#5. The point about positive thinking, and later cognitive behavioural therapy, was that you could choose how you thought about life, and that how you thought about it changed not only your interpretation of what happened, but also the actual course of events.

Jenny Alexander

#6. Be conten with who you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor look on to it.

Kevin Brooks

#7. Don't toy with things that block your light.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#8. The clock ticks. The two hands are convoys marching through a desert. The black bars on the clock face are green oases. The long hand has marched ahead to find water. The other, painfully stumbles among hot stones in the desert. It will die in the desert.

Virginia Woolf

#9. Be careful what you tell yourself, and do not belittle yourself, even in jest. Negative, deprecating self-talk can do significant harm to your self-image.

Cheryl L. Ilov

#10. Wisdom of the Ages: Another Bush in the White House-Yep they keep forgetting to grab the TV and silverware.

Matthew D. Heines

#11. Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

David W. Earle