Brandler Ridgefield Quotes & Sayings

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it ...
It wasn't only the sand drifts and the mud and the narrow, winding, broken roads up in the mountains. There was all that business at the frontier posts, all that haggling in the forest outside wooden huts that flew strange flags. I had to talk myself and my Peugeot past the men with guns
just to drive through bush and more bush. And then I had to talk even harder, and shed a few more bank notes and give away more of my tinned food, to get myself
and the Peugeot
out of the places I had talked us into.
Some of these palavers could take half a day ... — V.S. Naipaul

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can. — Anton Yelchin

Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create. — Vincent Van Gogh

I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters. — Truddi Chase

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark. — Christian Nestell Bovee

He was such a bastard. Maybe he should have Remy shoot him again, just for good measure. — Abigail Roux

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. — Mark Twain

Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future. — Florence Littauer

To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us. — Marcus Luttrell

Astronauts are taught that the best way to reduce stress is to sweat the small stuff. We're trained to look on the dark side and to imagine the worst things that could possibly happen. In fact, in simulators, one of the most common questions we learn to ask ourselves is, Okay, what's the next thing that will kill me? — Chris Hadfield

To teach is to delight. — Horace

I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn't sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby. — Nia Long

He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur but he'll be there. — Neil Gaiman

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. — Kin Hubbard

I realized that I'd been comparing the inside of my life with the outside of everyone else's; measuring my own fortunes against the cheerful how-are-you-I'm-fine facade that people put on for each other. — Marie Bostwick