Braunlichs Whirlpool Quotes & Sayings

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears. — Ben Saunders

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life is short, have dessert first. — Joan Smith

Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories. — Elizabeth Savage

Is it still manipulation if you know it's happening, but it works anyway? — Amy Engel

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, -
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart were hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave where our hero we buried. — Henry David Thoreau

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. — Susan B. Anthony

This enterprise may sound a little strange to us, but in the early modern age it was common for private companies to hire not only soldiers, but also generals and admirals, cannons and ships, and even entire off-the-shelf armies. The international community took this for granted and didn't raise an eyebrow when a private company established an empire. — Yuval Noah Harari

He would roam about the world carrying his recollections with him, and perhaps some day he would come to forget them, for one can live only by forgetting; but when his grief should dissolve with the years he would be left an empty man, like a smiling automaton, incapable of any affections other than meterial ones. — Vicente Blasco Ibanez

My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace. — Patricia Highsmith