Brevan Oil Quotes & Sayings

FIVE KINDS OF FOLLY The Sages have said that five things are signs of foolishness: First, seeking one's own good while harming others; Second, looking for the yield of the last days without discipline and service; Third, loving women harshly and brashly; Fourth, seeking to learn the refinements of science in comfort and ease; Fifth, expecting friendship without oneself being reliable and trustworthy. (Anwar-i-Suhaili) — Idries Shah

I flush at the waywardness of my subconscious - she's doing her happy dance in a bright red hula skirt — E.L. James

To get real leverage, you have to persuade them that they have something concrete to lose if the deal falls through. — Chris Voss

The brain abhors discrepancies. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The determination of your own destiny is a choice that is yours alone to make. — Steven Redhead

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought. — Kabir Bedi

...the past/that has a place for us will know us by our scattered wake."
A History Play,Waterborne — Linda Gregerson

Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm. — Norman Vincent Peale

It is clear, then, that self must stand out of the way, that there may be room for God to be exalted; and this is the reason why He bringeth His people ofttimes into straits and difficulties, that, being made conscious of their own folly and weakness, they may be fitted to behold the majesty of God when He comes forth to work their deliverance. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society no longer do so, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures, all of which we are watching leap up around the fringes of our political establishment - this lunatic fringe, which has largely taken over the Republican Party. — Chris Hedges