Brittiney Quotes & Sayings

We just stood there, facing each other, but nine floors apart. — Jonathan Safran Foer

O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me. — Benjamin Franklin

The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God! — Matthew Henry

I tried that too,' said Laurent. 'I don't like to think of myself as predictable. But apparently I cycle through all the normal responses. Shall I tell you what you're going to do when I stick the knife in for the first time? — C.S. Pacat

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm. — Svetlana Alliluyeva

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love. — Margaret Halsey

As Lynn Margulis writes: All the world's bacteria essentially have access to a single gene pool and hence to the adaptive mechanisms of the entire bacterial kingdom. The speed of recombination over that of mutation is superior: it could take eukaryotic organisms a million years to adjust to a change on a worldwide scale that bacteria can accommodate in a few years. — Steven Johnson

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it. — James Dyson

It is not the length of life, but it is the love for life, that determines the value of your life. — Debasish Mridha