Brevard Childs Quotes & Sayings

Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?" — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Literature, for example, serves a pragmatic purpose. Like any form of Art, literature's mission is to make the fulfillment of our essential duties more bearable. — Muriel Barbery

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here. — Conor Oberst

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? — Andrew Sean Greer

Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding. — Edward Tufte

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three. — Dan DeCarlo

There is a language to dying. It creeps like a shadow alongside the passing years and the taste of it hides in the corners of our mouths. It finds us whether we are sick or healthy. It is a secret hushed thing that lives in the whisper of the nurses' skirts as they rustle up and down our stairs. They've taught me to face the language one syllable at a time, slowing creating an unwilling meaning. — Sarah Pinborough

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. — Peter Jennings

New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets. — Debbie Ford

Being careful requires you to take actions cautiously - and there is no way that you will ever hit 10X activity levels by being cautious. — Grant Cardone

When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention. — Henry B. Eyring

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success. — Arianna Huffington

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest. — Steven Van Zandt

Sure it is, Bella, sure it is. If everything is so great, then you are you sweating bullets? — Stephenie Meyer