Branner Builders Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want to want what I wanted. I wanted to want what He wanted for me. — Toni Sorenson

Said a hasty prayer and headed for a wooden bench, there to recover a composure more in keeping with what I was, or what at the time I considered myself to be. Our — Roberto Bolano

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view. — Barbara Kingsolver

Remember, the mind likes to window shop. It fancies the life in this boutique, then wants to try on the boots in another. But the soul invests all of itself. It's not as casual or as distracted by fashion, sales, promises or ease of acquisition. It's not interested in possibility. It pitches toward destiny. That's why you will never know a sense of ease, even when you come up with answers, unless you choose to listen to the answer that will take away all questions. — Tama Kieves

And thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless. — J.M. Barrie

If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism. — Muhammadu Buhari

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. — Plato

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. — Kenneth Tynan

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation. — Sophia Amoruso

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Fearlessness isn't a place your reach. It's a commitment you make. — Robin Sharma

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted. — Angie Stone