Brethericks Handbook Quotes & Sayings

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness. — Salman Rushdie

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side. — Alan Ryan

Beware the faces that bare the most smiles.
For they are the ones who hide the most sadness - . — A.R. Von

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done. — Peter Diamandis

There is only One Man Playing your Game, You! — Vineet Raj Kapoor

We are not Protestants any more - just 'non-Catholics'! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire. — Leonard Ravenhill

Most people, though, only see the surface reality of writing and think of writers as involved in quiet, intellectual work done in their study. If you have the strength to lift a coffee cup, they figure, you can write a novel. But once you try your hand at it, you soon find that it isn't as peaceful a job as it seems. — Haruki Murakami

But if you think about moral reasoning as a skill we humans evolved to further our social agendas - to justify our own actions and to defend the teams we belong to - then things will make a lot more sense. Keep your eye on the intuitions, and don't take people's moral arguments at face value. They're mostly post hoc constructions made up on the fly, crafted to advance one or more strategic objectives. — Jonathan Haidt

I was extreme ... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time. — Pink

Do you know you can learn from pain?' But, he explains, the circumstances must be right. To learn, you must have a future: — Hilary Mantel

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?' — Jack McMahon

It's better to be wise than to be smart. — Alan Alda