Bravery Sans Quotes & Sayings

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s. — Kim Gordon

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. — Chris Martin

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger. — Douglas Coupland

Besides, thinking that I'd already lost her might ease the tension between us and allow me to regain my footing and act a bit more confidently. What I didn't want to feel was hope and, behind the hope, a craving so fierce that anyone watching me would instantly guess I was utterly and undeniably smitten. — Andre Aciman

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. — Abraham Lincoln

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too. — Jeremy Collier

Gossip is nature's telephone. — Sholom Aleichem

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair. — Andrew Solomon

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power. — Carlos Castaneda

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals. — Mark Twain

Scary isn't een in the same fucking universe as what I'm feeling right now, dude." Ball-crawling heebie-jeebies might come close. — Tymber Dalton

I have an attorney. I'm looking to be rich like Harrison [Ford]. I'm trying to have planes and do all that stuff. — Harrison Ford

You are generous with your time, your money, and your cock. — Alessandra Torre