Braveyoung Quotes & Sayings

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother. — Mona Simpson

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. — Theodore J. Forstmann

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. — Sri Aurobindo

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic. — Justin Raimondo

I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating. — Rebecca De Mornay

Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine. — Yasser Arafat

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it. — Elmore Leonard

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good. — Lemony Snicket

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody. — Linda Lael Miller

It was warm and salty, chalky and bittersweet. It tasted like the blood of some old, old thing. I tried not to think about how much at the mercy of these strange people I now was. But in fact my courage was failing. Both Dona Catalina and the guide's mocking eyes had slowly gone cold and mantislike. A wave of insect sound sweeping up the river seemed to splatter the darkness with shards of sharpedged light. I felt my lips go numb. Trying not to appear as loaded as I felt, I crossed to my hammock and lay back. Behind my closed eyelids there was a flowing river of magenta light. It occurred to me in a kind of dream mental pirouette that a helicopter must be landing on top of the hut, and this was the last impression I had. When I regained consciousness I appeared to myself to be surfing on the inner curl of a wave of brightly lit transparent information several hundred feet high. Exhilaration gave way to terror as I realised that my wave was speeding toward a rocky coastline. — Terence McKenna

Everyone has a character but sometimes it becomes less. — Amit Abraham

Dr. Sadler opened up the drawers of his desk. All empty - except for supplies. "Tell me," said the patient, "where do you keep your unfinished business?" "Finished!" said Sadler. "And where do you keep your unanswered mail?" "Answered!" Sadler told him. "My rule is never to lay down a letter until I have answered it. I — Dale Carnegie

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written. — Bonnie Friedman