Bravata Quotes & Sayings

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy. — William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves. — Albert Einstein

Mitt Romney and I don't agree on every issue and certainly housing is one of them. When you look at what is going on here in Southern Nevada, you can't say you got to let the housing market hit bottom. We have been bouncing along the bottom for years. And the fact is we have to do everything possible to: 1) keep people in their homes and 2) get people who are out of their homes back into their homes. — Joe Heck

As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs, so is it beautifully ordered by Providence that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity, winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart. — Washington Irving

The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russian. — Neal Stephenson

For visions come not to polluted eyes. — Mary Howitt

The strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires ... — John Geddes

Cal and I stare after her, then at the walls, then at the floor, then at our feet, afraid to look at each other. — Victoria Aveyard