Brilliance Audio Quotes & Sayings

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool. — Paul Begala

Due to some incident, real or manufactured, Russians in a Baltic capital begin demonstrating, police use tear gas, and somewhere violence breaks out and Russians are killed. The Russian government demands the right to protect its citizens, the Baltic country rejects the demand. Violence mounts, and the Russians demand that NATO stop the fighting. The Baltic state insists it is an internal matter, claims that Russian intelligence caused the violence, and demands that Russian intelligence stop its intervention. A series of explosions kill a large number of Russians, and Russia occupies the country. For — George Friedman

The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured. — Kresley Cole

Bags and boxes across the hot parking lot to the van. On the way back to the mall, Willa Jean, who spotted the ice-cream store that sold fifty-two flavors, told her uncle she needed an ice-cream cone. Uncle Hobart agreed that ice-cream cones were needed by all. Inside the busy shop, customers had to take numbers and wait turns. Ramona, responsible for Willa Jean, who could not read, was faced with the embarrassing task of reading aloud the list of fifty-two flavors while all the customers listened. Strawberry, German chocolate, vanilla, ginger-peachy, red-white-and-blueberry, black walnut, Mississippi mud, green bubble gum, baseball nut. — Beverly Cleary

The Commander assigned jobs based on skills and intelligence, not on gender. — Maria V. Snyder

That this tragic war that's been waged in and around each of us, this battle that's gone on in our souls - that's ravaged us and beaten us down and clawed away our humanity - has simply been evil trying to destroy who we are. Because evil knows what we will become: Stronger. Wiser. Unstoppable. Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you will become. — Mary Weber

Very few people are able to discount the effect of circumstances upon their own characters. — Bertrand Russell

It was as if the tide of him had been ebbing from her, but she knew, like a real tide, time would bring him back. — Lauren Groff

Me having no education. I had to use my brains. — Bill Shankly

Eventually, Bast spoke up. "May I ask a question, Reshi?" Kote smiled gently. "Always, Bast." "A troublesome question?" "Those tend to be the only worthwhile kind. — Patrick Rothfuss

Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear. — James D. Maxon

Lord Kane beat me up," one said with a grin. There was blood on his teeth. "Did you see?"
"Best. Night. Ever. — Gena Showalter

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. — Lewis Mumford