Brecht Mother Courage Quotes & Sayings

Are any of us non-believers in moments of despair? — Michelle Cooper

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again. — William Shakespeare

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings. — Kathleen Norris

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them. — Bernie Mac

TV is just troubled people being booed these days. — Jon Ronson

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight. — Levi Woodbury

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. — Hanif Kureishi

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. — Pierre Corneille

Do what gives you joy and you will enjoy what you do. — Debasish Mridha

It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere. — Lucy Christopher

Grievances are not in themselves sufficient to radicalize somebody. They are half the truth. My meaning is best summarized this way: when we in the West failed to intervene in the Bosnian genocide, some Muslims became radicalized; when we did intervene in Afghanistan and Iraq, more Muslims became radicalized; when we failed to intervene in Syria, many more Muslims became radicalized. The grievance narrative that pins the blame on foreign policy is only half the story. It is insufficient as an explanation for radicalization. — Sam Harris

To maintain our own economy,we are disturbing the nature's economy — Siddharth Seksaria

It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me. — Misty Copeland

It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart. — Benjamin Graham