Braker Post Quotes & Sayings

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. — Mahatma Gandhi

We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a post-disaster or post-conflict situation, we end up with intractable refugee camps that end up staying for decades. — Cameron Sinclair

... God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don't fit well together anymore, it's all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it. — Rohinton Mistry

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
If one be better with them or without,
Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,
Knows the high art of what and how to read. — John Godfrey Saxe

The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history! — Rashers Tierney

I want to win at everything. I usually don't like things that I'm not good at, but it doesn't mean I don't want to win at them. — Danica Patrick

Because you decided I couldn't take it!" I shout. "You kept the truth from me because you thought I couldn't handle it. You were so wrong! I can take it straight up! That's what hurts me the most. I'm not some fragile thing that needs to be treated like a glass house. It's humiliating and it just pisses me off that you pretend like I'm not strong. I get that you're a man...you feel the need to protect me. I get that you're afraid and my strength feels dangerous to you. And you know what? It should feel that way, because it is. It's power. — Elisa Marie Hopkins

She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy. — Frances Hardinge

We can't always make life work. But we can always draw near to God. There is a different way to approach our problems. There is a NEW WAY to live. — Larry Crabb

There's quite a difference between "almost never" and "never never". — Julie Berry

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming. — Bjorn Lomborg

Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers. — Bryant McGill

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across. — Joel Coen