Brhane Quotes & Sayings

How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul? — Sebastian Barry

Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle. — Agatha Christie

I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy. — Errol Flynn

If we studied any other creature in nature and found the record of intra-species violence that human beings have, we would be repulsed by it. We'd view it as a great perversion of natural law - but we wouldn't deny it. — Gavin De Becker

That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness. — John Milton

Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. — Jorge Luis Borges

I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which is actually hostile to the cause of living wages. Women need equal wages to men, but not equal wages at poverty. — Jill Stein

Observable Fact: People aren't logical. — Nicola Yoon

Africa is people may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa. — Chinua Achebe

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. — Voltaire

Fatherland before everything, art afterward. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Do dogs feel for humans something akin to religious ecstasy? What other strong or subtle emotions are felt by animals that do not communicate with us? — Carl Sagan

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny — George Washington

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. — Immanuel Kant

Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves. — Simon Patrick