Birnest Quotes & Sayings

The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine. — Phyllis Schlafly

And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona. — Phil Knight

Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see. — Martin Luther King Jr.

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight. — Warren Buffett

We are disclosing animals, wired for unburdening. It's what we do as a species. When I am being told, I listen, mindful of the honor, remembering all the while that the shore would be mistaken to believe that the waves lap up against him because he is so beautiful. — David Rakoff

Even after the Allies emerged triumphant in 1945, these concerns were not forgotten: depression and fascism remained ever-present in men's minds. The urgent question was not how to celebrate a magnificent victory and get back to business as usual, but how on earth to ensure that the experience of the years 1914-1945 would never be repeated. More than anyone else, it was Maynard Keynes who devoted himself to addressing this challenge. — Tony Judt

In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end. — Doug Liman

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,
defects which it is well not to correct. — Joseph Joubert

The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle. — Tariq Ramadan

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow. — Bram Stoker

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms. — Adolf Hitler

... what I'm saying is that if we and all the other species on earth are the only life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let's face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years after the death of Jesus and his disciples there is no actual proof of a God or gods then we, the humans, who are meant to be at the height of the evolutionary tree, are in fact at the bottom because no other species on this planet is enslaved to the economy. Every other species is born free and lives free. We humans are born into economic slavery and life crippling debt. — Arun D. Ellis

I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream. — Vicki Lawrence