Brannenburg Quotes & Sayings

Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them. — Elbert Hubbard

By thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better. — Anne Frank

We need to see ourselves as basic miracles. — Virginia Satir

People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder. — Christine O'Donnell

I've been recording myself since grade 10. Back then, it was just really crappy rock stuff. — Ryan Hemsworth

There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it
> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow
> infinity ... For where there is no end, there can be no rest; where there is
> no rest, there can be no peace; and where there is no peace, God cannot
> dwell. — Hugh Of St. Victor

Even the best cook can't make chicken soup out of his own feet. There aren't so terribly many ingredients in anyone's life, less meat than there is on a sparrow. The average person could come up with at most two good novels. Many who think very highly of themselves can't manage more than a couple of anecdotes. — Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen

The Dutchman [Brannenburg] was hard ... he was stone. His brain was eroded granite where the few ideas he had carved deep their ruts of opinion. There was no way for another idea to seep in, no place for imagination, no place for dreams, none for compassion or mercy or even fear.
He knew no shadings of emotion, he knew no half-rights or half-wrongs or pity or excuse, nor had he any sense of pardon. The more I thought of him the more I knew he was not evil in himself, and he would have been shocked that anybody thought of him as evil. Shocked for a moment only, then he'd have shut the idea from his mind as nonsense. For the deepest groove worn into that granite brain was the one of his own rightness.
And that scared me. — Louis L'Amour

I will work and fight for stem cell research. — Mitt Romney

There are days when I wake/ and find my face is a hole/ and I have nowhere to hang my mask. — Carl Adamshick

Simpson Rowe was quick to say that only perpetrators are responsible for assault, but assertiveness and self-advocacy are crucial defensive skills. — Peggy Orenstein

The great guru taught his disciples to avoid theoretical discussion of the scriptures. "He only is wise who devotes himself to realizing, not reading only, the ancient revelations," he said. "Solve all your problems through meditation. 14 Exchange unprofitable speculations for actual God-communion. "Clear — Paramahansa Yogananda

I couldn't think. I couldn't feel. I just existed - me, — Jojo Moyes

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters. — Evelyn Waugh

Marshal Reeves, watching me, snorted. "Live and learn, child," he said. "Everybody's worthy of respect. — Elizabeth Bear

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable. — Candace Bushnell