Brackets Used In Quotes & Sayings

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things. — Jean Rhys

THE WONDERS OF PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING 1 ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY ABOUT THE COMMA! 2 I BEFORE E COMPLETELY SORTED OUT! 3 THE MYSTERY OF THE SEMICOLON REVEALED!!! 4 SEE THE AMPERSAND! (SMALL EXTRA CHARGE) 5 FUN WITH BRACKETS! ** WILL ACCEPT VEGETABLES, EGGS, AND CLEAN USED CLOTHING — Terry Pratchett

You couldn't see the soldiers as people. They were icons. — Sara Sheridan

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us. — Don Miguel Ruiz

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is. — Robin Morgan

13He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy. — Anonymous

As we were coming up again, we met with some Indians of strange aspects, that is, of a larger size, and other sort of features, than those of our country. Our Indian slaves, that rowed us, asked them some questions, but they could not understand us, but showed us a long cotton string, with several knots on it, and told us, they had been coming from the mountains so many moons as there were knots. — Aphra Behn

The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a world obsessed with conquest, our actions beyond bedchamber and hearth remembered only when we leave their obscurity. And so we become infamous because we were not invisible, the truth of our lives ephemeral as incense. — Tosca Lee

I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed. — Carolina Kostner

The thing is, it drives me crazy if somebody else gets killed - especially somebody very smart and entertaining and all - and it's somebody else's fault. — J.D. Salinger

All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. — Sarah Waters

We were an us, Charlie. And holy shit, I can see why. — Tarryn Fisher

Love yourself as you are. Love and approve of yourself. — Louise Hay

A latter-day Go Ask Alice, BEAUTIFUL is raw, gritty, and powerful, an intense ice-pick jab to the heart. A stunning debut and a must-read. — R.A. Nelson

To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security. — Tina Brown

I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do? — Carlos Ruiz Zafon