Briette Verken Quotes & Sayings

I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene. — Mary-Louise Parker

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. — Benjamin Franklin

As God can protect his people under the greatest despotism, so the utmost civil liberty is no safety to them without the immediate protection of his Almighty arm. I fear that Christians in this country have too great a confidence in political institutions ... [rather] than of the government of God. — Alexander Carson

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade. — Star Jones

In the beginning, when Adam was first created, he spent whole days rubbing his face in the grass. He picked his ear until it bled, tried to fit his fist in his mouth and yanked out tufts of his own hair. At one point he tried to pinch out his own eyes in order to examine them and God had to step in.
Looking down at Adam, God must have felt a bit weird about the whole thing. It must have been something like eating at a cafeteria table all by yourself when a stranger suddenly sits down opposite you, but it is a stranger you have created, and he is eating a macaroni salad that you have also created, and you have been sitting at the table all by yourself for over a hundred billion years; and yet still, you have nothing to talk about.
It was pitiful the way Adam looked up into the sky and squinted.
Before He created Adam, God must have been lonely; now he was still lonely, and so was Adam. — Jonathan Goldstein

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. — John Maynard Keynes