Brightmont Quotes & Sayings

Only a fool trips on what is behind him. — Iceberg Slim

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion. — Henry David Thoreau

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life. — Bruce Willis

I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you're working for them, they want something by a certain time. — Joe Sacco

It shouldn't surprise me that men continue to think of grand new ways to kill one another, and with greater precision ... — Alexandra Bracken

Sometimes standing for truth is painful and an isolated journey because truth is not always what we like to hear and live with. However, it is your belief in the purity of truth, your confidence in yourself and your godly values that will give you the strength to be a torchbearer of truth. With truth you are always a winner even if it comes late or with a price to pay. — Vishwas Chavan

Birth
is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth
stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching
of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of
inner trust. — Elizabeth Noble

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading. — Walter Kirn

There is no greater disease than the loss of hope. — Yisroel Salanter

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. — Henry David Thoreau

Grant: Any other girl in the world have said yes.
Sydney: I'm not any other girl. — Brynna Gabrielson

How soft and gentle her name sounds when I whisper it. It lingers on the tongue, insidious and slow, almost like poison, which is apt indeed. It passes from the tongue to the parched lips, and from the lips back to the heart. And the heart controls the body, and the mind also. Shall I be free of it one day? — Daphne Du Maurier

There are practically an endless number of measurements which can be taken, but I came to feel that a scientist indulges in more than endless measurement. He must speculate. He must dream. He must find that which is beyond understanding." - Charles L. Scudder — Daniel Ellis

Sometimes people say to me 'These states that you're talking about, can't they be achieved without drugs?' And my answer to that is, 'My God, who would want to?' What would be proved by achieving these things without drugs? If the things I'm talking about began to happen to me without drugs I would be very very concerned and alarmed. And also I think there is something to be said for admitting that we cannot do it alone. That if you want this spiritual insight, if you want the Gaian matrix to welcome you, then humble yourself to the point of making a deal with a plant. That's the key. — Terence McKenna

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. — Paul Nurse