Brade Quotes & Sayings

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts. — Rick Atkinson

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade. — L.M. Montgomery

I am sure,
Though you can guess what temperance should be,
You know not what it is. — William Shakespeare

My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he's fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we're taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some semi-retarded fishermen. Don't you wish you were here? — Carl Hiaasen

manage the community outside of the CIA. An official observed, "The CIA director managed the CIA; it was the best job in the world. Managing the IC meant going out to the NRO and sitting through a three-hour meeting about satellite specifications. So it just was not done well."3 — Michael Allen

To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth — William Brade

I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow. — Robert Frost

Faith is neither hope nor trust, but a particular spiritual state. Faith is man's awareness that his position in the world obliges him to perform certain actions. A person acts according to his faith, not as the catechism says because he believes in things unseen as in things seen, nor because he wishes to achieve things hoped for, but simply because having defined his position in the world it is natural for him to act according to it. — Leo Tolstoy

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape. — Gary Burton

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Maybe that's why I felt sad and empty - because I'd missed him all my life. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Men who want to get married
propose. You don't need to read the signs. They propose and that's the sign. — Sophie Kinsella

My love can't be purchased ... Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises. — Nina Dobrev

Normalness leads to sadness. — Phil Lester

A perfect hero is about as boring as a perfect marriage. — Michael Robotham