Brat Tamer Quotes & Sayings

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone. — Steve Carell

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys. — Samantha Shannon

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty. — Albert Camus

There are few things truer in life than... you can not play a guitar after doing the dishes and you can't get anywhere in life with a negative mind. — K. Farrell St. Germain

When we sleep the soul is lit up ... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime. — Aeschylus

Why were the flowers born so beautiful and yet so hapless? Insects can sting, and even the meekest of beasts will fight when brought to bay. The birds whose plumage is sought to deck some bonnet can fly from its pursuer, the furred animal whose coat you covet for your own may hide at your approach. Alas! The only flower known to have wings is the butterfly; all others stand helpless before the destroyer. If they shriek in their death agony their cry never reaches our hardened ears. We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours. Have you not noticed that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year? It may be that their wise men have told them to depart till man becomes more human. Perhaps they have migrated to heaven. Much may be said in favor of him who — Okakura Kakuzo

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision. — Freida Pinto