Brinckmann Quotes & Sayings

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings. — Jaggi Vasudev

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself — Lao-Tzu

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there. — Connie Chung

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them. — Albert Einstein

For centuries champagne has been used to launch marriages and ships. Most assume this is because the drink is so intrinsically celebratory; but, in fact, it is used at the onset of these dangerous enterprises because it so capably boosts one's resolve. When the glass was placed on the table, the Count took a swig large enough to tickle his sinuses. — Amor Towles

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me. — Paula Danziger

Thou strange piece of wild nature! — Colley Cibber

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change. — Martin Buber

One of the greatest challenges of becoming myself has been acknowledging that I'm not who I thought I was supposed to be or who I always pictured myself being. — Brene Brown

I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics. — Cullen Bunn

In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears' function to do this just as it is the eyes' business to make stars twinkle. — John Steinbeck

Mutating state and asynchronous programming are very hard to get right. — Lee Campbell

I agree with ... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that. — Malcolm Muggeridge