Brawner Elementary Quotes & Sayings

The religion brings many people together, so some degree of discipline is necessary, of course, but if you focus too much on formalities, you can lose sight of your original purpose. Things like precepts and doctrines are, ultimately, just expedients. The important thing is not the frame itself but what is inside the frame. — Haruki Murakami

It don't make no diference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. — Mark Twain

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it. — Anthony Rapp

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The Church may have a building, but that is not its place. The building may be the church's location, but its space is in the shared humanity of its persons. — Andrew Root

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative. — Nicolas Cage

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. — Malcolm Bradbury

Time must be such a patient fellow to put up with the monotony of each moment. Each second ticking away with ungodly precision, reminding itself that it cannot escape its own perfection. And those wretched blue bells were like a pain in my side. I waited and waited for their ring and then I cursed them when they finally came and did not sing the number of rings that would signify the end to my struggles. Each second was like a weight being added to my shoulders, asking me why I had left comfort for starvation, certainty for uncertainty, security for freedom.
--From Of Mind Or Matter — Sreejit Poole

We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved. — Charles Spurgeon

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight! — Mikhail Tal

Anytime you've got a good running back, it will help your passing game. — Scott Tolzien

My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it. — Brad Thor

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music. — Judy Woodruff

It seems delightfully incongruous,' he wrote from Armentie'res, 'that there should be good shops and fine buildings and comfortable beds less than half an hour's walk from the trenches — Vera Brittain