Brandbergen Centrum Quotes & Sayings

A conqueror's victories are his medals, and his enemies are his trophies. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them. — Alex Flinn

For all but our most recent history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty. Every day was a roll of the dice. — Atul Gawande

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it. — Tallulah Bankhead

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors. — Malcolm Gladwell