Brlesq Quotes & Sayings

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart. — James Russell Lowell

An incompetent officer can never understand that to apply the law without understanding its spirit is to invite opposition. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Doing the right thing requires us to humanize the guestworker upon
whom we have come to rely. Thus, establishing a worker program must
be done in a manner that provides the workers with hope for membership
and respect from other Americans. A path toward legalization becomes
a critical ingredient of any guestworker program. Only through that path
can these individuals attain a sense of enfranchisement and freedom
from political subjugation and servitude. — Bill Ong Hing

So, anyway." Jackal's impatient voice broke through our cold standoff. "Not to interrupt this riveting family drama, but are we going to go hunting anytime soon, or are you two going to glare at each other until the sun comes up? — Julie Kagawa

People who succeed are those who know how to mobilize all their physical and mental resources on a goal. — Tony Robbins

We clung to each other with blind loyalty, like Lord Voldemort and his snake, Nagini. I, of course, was Nagini. If you messed with one of us, you knew you messed with both of us, and Voldemort was going to cast a murder spell on you, or Nagini was going to chomp on your jugular. — Mindy Kaling

As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses. — Ala Bashir

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged. — Eric Kandel

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are. — Austin Kleon

The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. — Carroll Quigley

Maybe you know something about young people, and maybe you don't. I, having been one myself once upon a time, know a few things about them. One thing I know is that if you don't want one to do something - for example, go into a room where there's a portrait of an unbearably beautiful princess- saying "It might cost you your life" is about the worst thing you can possibly say. Because then that's all that young person will want to do.
I mean, why didn't Johannes say something else? Like, "It's a broom closet. Why? you want to see a broom closet?" Or, "It's a fake door, silly. For decoration." Or even, "It's the ladies' bathroom, Your Majesty. Best not go poking your head in there. — Adam Gidwitz

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America. — Dennis Kucinich

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years. — Arlen Specter

The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy. — Roger Altman

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time. — Rachel Cusk