Brettles Quotes & Sayings

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government. — Grover Cleveland

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are ... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us. — Frank Gaffney

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes. — Max Beerbohm

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands. — Charles De Gaulle

He's more myself than I am — Emily Bronte

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction. — Eric Hoffer

I'm supposed to be here taking measurements, but I haven't even brought a measuring tape. And it's not the apartment I need to measure -- it's the size of my balls. — Sarina Bowen

Only the impossible lasts forever. — Djuna Barnes

Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow. — John Muir

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive. — Jean De La Fontaine

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. — Alden Nowlan

Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, like the heart of Christ, reaches out for the salvation of a lost world. [190] — Ellen G. White

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker