Brimacombe Reservation Quotes & Sayings

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible. — Janice Rogers Brown

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich. — Sarah Bernhardt

He began to understand suddenly what friends were for: they reminded you that things weren't so bad after all. Reminded you never to stop laughing at yourself. — S.J. Kincaid

The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea. — Nick Cave

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. — Ludwig Von Mises

She had done the usual trick-been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and the worst were between men and women. Inevitably these were extremely insincere. — Virginia Woolf

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening. — Brandon Routh

We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60. — Iman

The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork. — Alain De Botton

Come now, please continue. I'd like to kiss you before my feet disintegrate. — Cate Rowan

I open my eyes and see a head hanging upside down. Grinning at me. — Margarita Morris

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston. — Anthony Trollope

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem. — Janet Montgomery

People come into your life and people leave it ... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you. — Orlando Bloom