Brocquest Quotes & Sayings

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans — Ralph Nader

A great speech is literature. — Peggy Noonan

Climbing, simply and joyfully, is the way I love the world. — Steph Davis

What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand. — Vivian Gornick

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding. — Henry David Thoreau

President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the skills they're going to need are Spanish, Chinese, Korean, because that's where the jobs went. Who better than Bush as an example of what can happen when you take a job without any training. — Jay Leno

Cancer, then, is quite literally trying to emulate a regenerating organ - or perhaps, more disturbingly, the regenerating organism. Its quest for immortality mirrors our own quest, a quest buried in our embryos and in the renewal of our organs. Someday, if a cancer succeeds, it will produce a far more perfect being than its host - imbued with both immortality and the drive to proliferate. One might argue that the leukemia cells growing in my laboratory derived from the woman who died three decades earlier have already achieved this form of perfection. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I broke with my religion in college. — Anne Rice

How do you recruit and keep volunteers? Part of the answer is that we clarify the win. Countless individuals quit working in churches every year — Andy Stanley

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with. — Lauren Graham

Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know? — CeeLo Green

Meditation is not about getting rid of all your thoughts; it's learning not to get so lost in them that you forget what your goal is. Don't worry if your focus isn't perfect when meditating. Just practice coming back to the breath, again and again. — Kelly McGonigal