Brhany Quotes & Sayings

If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down. — Gordon Brown

In the wilderness, we must learn to walk with the Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.
Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature
Gives it dim sympathies with me who live,
Making it a companionable form,
Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit
By its own moods interprets, every where
Echo or mirror seeking of itself,
And makes a toy of Thought. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you close your eyes to see the view, you miss everything surrounding you — David Archuleta

her lips made him even more desperate to convince her that they had to live. — Lucian Bane

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it. — Iain Banks

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine. — Iris Murdoch

I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do. — Billy Graham

I find it very hard to write about Jewish history. — Simon Schama

He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me. — Suzanne Collins

There was a long moment between them that might have gone differently. Of all the times I saw the two of them together, this is the picture that is most stamped into my soul. It's the two of them, jumbled up and broken apart into confused pieces, and not really understanding, themselves, what they were doing. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised. — Julian Baggini

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind , the incarnation of the spirit . — Martin Buber