Barbell Brigade Quotes & Sayings

Hard, hard it is, this anxious autumn
To lift the heavy mind from its dark forebodings; — Edna St. Vincent Millay

He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear. — Lilith Saintcrow

Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: It is a remarkable progress. In five or six thousand years five or six high civilizations have risen, flourished, commanded the wonder of the world, then faded out and disappeared; and not one of them except the latest ever invented any sweeping and adequate way to kill people. They all did their best
to kill being the chiefest ambition of the human race and the earliest incident in its history
but only the Christian civilization has scored a triumph to be proud of. Two or three centuries from now it will be recognized that all the competent killers are Christians; then the pagan world will go to school to the Christian
not to acquire his religion, but his guns. The Turk and the Chinaman will buy those to kill missionaries and converts with. — Mark Twain

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell. — Joyce Maynard

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today. — Lady Gaga

Umm, I think it means we determine our own fate. It's not what happens to us in life, it's what we do about it. — Karen McQuestion

Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't want to be pigeonholed as conservative, liberal, independent or anything. I back the man for the things the man believes in, not whether it says "R" or "D" down there beside his name. — Merle Haggard

A word is also a picture of a word. — Don DeLillo

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt — Tacitus

I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs. — Teri Hatcher

What is the difference between fashion and style? Fashion says, 'Me, too,' and style, 'Only me.' — Geraldine Stutz

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'I am lavishly paid,' Danny said, 'to think in the first person plural. — Dorothy Dunnett

It is obviously the purest anthropomorphism to assume that the absence of a human quality in bird, cloud, or star is the presence of a total blank, or to assume that what is not conscious is merely unconscious. Nature is not necessarily arranged in accordance with the system of mutually exclusive alternatives which characterize our language and logic. Furthermore, may it not be that when we speak of nature as blind, and of matter-energy as unintelligent, we are simply projecting upon them the blankness which we feel when we try to know our own consciousness as an object, when we try to see our own eyes or taste our own tongues? — Alan W. Watts

She knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design, offering little relief from pain, for being in accord with it means that the fortunate find themselves orphaned. — Charles Frazier

You are a legend. Your self-invention matters. You are the artist of your own life. — Lady Gaga