Briony Robbie Quotes & Sayings

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. — Joe Paterno

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge. — Richard Dawkins

In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return. — David Jeremiah

Even though I was fairly certain God wasn't Ted Bundy, I kept an open mind, since this phone call was getting a bit confusing. — Scott Buckel

One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil. — Christopher Pike

Even in these first days together, it is very clear that this feeling of mine for the stranger has trumped all the other adventures in my life. It has shuffled everything and everyone else I thought I was moving toward or away from. — Marlena De Blasi

Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities. — Swami Vivekananda

Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade. — Jodi Picoult

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again. — Shan Sa

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't. — George H. W. Bush

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it. — Roddy Piper

She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They wouldn't let him speak. She would never know what scenes were driving that turmoil. — Ian McEwan

They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the
safe side, he should be castrated anyway. — Hunter S. Thompson

Jews, listen to me,' she cried. I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames. — Elie Wiesel

McEwan's Atonement ... truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past ... . The middle section of Atonement, the two vividly realized set pieces of Robbie's trek to the Channel and Briony's experiences with the wounded evacuees of Dunkirk, would alone have made an outstanding novel ... . There is wonderful writing throughout as McEwan weaves his many themes - the accidents of contingency, the sins of absent fathers, class oppression - into his narrative, and in a magical love scene. — Noah Richler