Brittles And More Quotes & Sayings

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something. — Creed Bratton

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone. — Mike Ross

Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it. — Ivan Turgenev

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart. — Dean Koontz

Brittles stood at attention until Jack looked at him, then he bowed slightly. "I'm sorry to disturb you, sir, but an Inspector Swindler from Scotland Yard wishes to speak with you. Are you home?"
"Of course, I'm home, man. I'm sitting right here. — Lorraine Heath

This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. — Victor Hugo

The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination. Rain — Diana Gabaldon

They open their wings, flash patterns and color, fly from flower toflower. I, with the dark brittles and many feet of the former form, inchalong the ground.
Sometimes all I want is two armfuls of air, a fistful of sky. — Nina Kiriki Hoffman

But he should have known that on top of hating his guts, I was also a virgin. — L.J. Shen

The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is ... .we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism. — Hannah Arendt

Amateurs train until they get it right.
Professionals train until they cannot get it wrong. — Jose N. Harris