Broncast Quotes & Sayings

Back in the 1970s, dissidents in the Soviet Union were often hospitalized in mental institutions and given drugs similar to the ones used to treat depression today. The reasoning was that you had to be insane to be unhappy in the Socialist Workers' Utopia. When the people treating depression receive status and prestige from the very system that their patients are unhappy with, they are unlikely to affirm the basic validity of the patient's withdrawal from life. The system has to be sound
after all, it validates my professional status
therefore the problem must be with you. — Charles Eisenstein

It's funny how life works like a seesaw: Some things go up while others plunge down. — Sophie Kinsella

She glanced left and right, all wide-eyed and innocent. Innocent as a streetwalker. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities. — George Gerbner

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox. — Paul Klee

What's more, sports are not, of course, always designed strictly to minimize the number of games. Without remembering this, some aspects of sports scheduling would otherwise seem mysterious to a computer scientist. — Brian Christian

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it. — Timothy Keller

You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight. — Patrice Motsepe

I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents. — Joe Morton

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength. — Dalai Lama

There.' He kisses my foot and releases it. It was pretty pain free, actually. 'What are you grinning at?' He looks at me in amusement.

'Your frown line.'

'I don't have a frown line.' He's offended.

'You do.'

He crawls up the bed and lays himself over me. 'Miss O'Shea, are you saying I have wrinkles?'

My grin widens. 'No. It only pops up when you're concentrating, or if you're concerned.'

'It does?'

'It does. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal. — Samuel Scoville Jr.

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish ... — Herbert Read

You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them. — Cornelia Funke