Brigdens Quotes & Sayings

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Barbee had always wondered about mental institutions. He thought of taking notes for a feature story on this adventure at Glennhaven, as the evening wore on, began to seem remarkable for utter lack of anything noteworthy. It began to appear as a fragile never-never land, populated with timid souls in continual retreat from the real world outside and even from one another within. — Jack Williamson

I come from a land afar and a land up high. My abilities are only eclipsed by my excellent turn of phrase and if you open your mind, they could be your abilities too. — Thomas William Shaw

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform. — Mary Wilson Little

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing. — Mitchell Baker

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage. — Abraham Lincoln

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The fount and breeding-place of the Semites was Arabia. — Will Durant

What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by and large, by Englishmen, who have come over from the English Civil War and are fighting in Ireland, and Cromwell is extraordinarily savage against these ... Drogheda, after all, was a Protestant — Ronald Hutton

There will always be bull markets followed by bear markets followed by bull markets — John Templeton

How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did. — Byron Katie

I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the discovery of the simple physical laws which underlie the complex phenomena of nature. It also requires a willingness to accept objectives which are limited by physical, logical, and technological constraints, and to accept a compromise when conflicting objectives cannot be met. No committee will ever do this until it is too late. — C.A.R. Hoare

A recent study suggests that 75 per cent of the weight-loss response in obesity is predicted by insulin levels.29 Not willpower. Not caloric intake. Not peer support or peer pressure. Not exercise. Just insulin. — Jason Fung

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies. — Alison Lurie