Brakebills Alumni Quotes & Sayings

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true. — Walter Brueggemann

One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done. — Barack Obama

I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market. — Nikki Reed

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow. — James Taylor

So predictable makes you to sleep??
Makes you to get interested???
So what to start??? A company called Predictable???
Really??? — Deyth Banger

There are those ... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark. — Aga Khan IV

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him. — Clint Eastwood

Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match. — Craig S. Keener

One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion. — Emeril Lagasse

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs. — Jeffrey Kluger

For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation. — Hermann Hesse