Brodys Soft Quotes & Sayings

It is because the critics are not detached that they do not see this detachment; it is because they are not looking at things in a dry light that they cannot see the difference between black and white. It is because they are in a particular mood of reaction and revolt that they have a motive for making out that all the white is dirty grey and the black not so black as it is painted. I do not say there are not human excuses for their revolt; I do not say it is not in some ways sympathetic; what I say is that it is not in any way scientific. An iconoclast may be indignant; an iconoclast may be justly indignant; but an iconoclast is not impartial. And it is stark hypocrisy to pretend that nine-tenths of the higher critics and scientific evolutionists and professors of comparative religion are in the least impartial. Why should they be impartial, what is being impartial, when the whole world is at war about whether one thing is a devouring superstition or a divine hope? — G.K. Chesterton

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician. — Bill Wyman

Misfortunes should always be expected. — Samuel Johnson

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin

Temptation was the color white. It was black ink, quivering at the point of a pen's nib. — Marie Rutkoski

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it. — Bertrand Russell