Brognard Quotes & Sayings

Just because you really like something, doesn't mean you can do it. — Tina P. Schwartz

Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the happiness and peace he had known without the boy. — Hermann Hesse

This is true of any device that uses power, which is a handy thing to know. For example, people worry about leaving disconnected chargers plugged into the wall for fear that they're draining power. Are they right? Heat flow analysis provides a simple rule of thumb: If an unused charger isn't warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny of electricity a day. For a small smartphone charger, if it's not warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny a year. This is true of almost any powered device. — Randall Munroe

Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'. — Rick Riordan

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent. — Quentin Smith

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is the cane of the blind. — Jacques Roumain

You too can be carved anew by the details of your devotion. — Mary Oliver

Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell. — Merle Haggard

I'm going into battle, hope I don't get hit. Lord if your listening, get me out of this shit". — Walter Dean Meyers

The rhyme pad was a spell book - it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's about you. I always thought that you would need some time, you know, to grow up, but I think I just realized that it's never going to happen, not while I'm sitting around waiting for it. — Emma Straub

Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the other half would lead a man to question the very place of the earth itself, safe at the center of the universe. — Philippa Gregory

The thinking brain influences the body's responses and it makes a neat little loop. — Brad Warner

Perfectionism is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If — Augusten Burroughs