Brokest States Quotes & Sayings

This is so true that we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves or be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue We lack the energy of evil as well as the energy of good. — Albert Camus

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two. — John Masefield

In a perfect world, everybody would be gay. I mean if everybody looked like Zach Braff, you just wouldn't be able to resist. — Zach Braff

The United States has the most powerful government, with the longest reach, of any nation in history. It is also the Brokest Nation in History. Resolving that contradiction is unlikely to be pretty. — Mark Steyn

At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had. — Frederick Lenz

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother. — Publilius Syrus

Wipe your glasses with what you know. — James Joyce

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have. — Xinran

Refuse to live a settle for it life. — Karen Salmansohn

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace. — Mahatma Gandhi

The dreams of the left are always beautiful - the imagining of a better world, the damnation of the present one. This faith, this luminescent anger - these are worthy of being called human. These are the Beautiful that an age produces. — Tony Kushner

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out. — Van Morrison

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me. — Michael Palin