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Brooklynite Quotes By Kara Storti

We are not put on this earth to be happy all the time. I don't think trying to be happy is the secret to life. It certainly isn't what my life is, that's for sure. Then what is? Be sad and suffer? No, no. It's not about trying to be anything. Happiness is not something that can be attained and once attained, that's it. It's an ongoing project. — Kara Storti

Brooklynite Quotes By Mark Bowden

Islam is a system given by God and it aims to establish a fundamental principle of God's sovereignty and people's servitude to Him alone," Qutb wrote. "As such, Islam has the right to remove all obstacles from its way and address people freely without any impediments such as a political system or social customs and traditions . . . it is the right of Islam to take the initiative. It is not the creed of a particular people or the system of a particular country. It is a system given by God for the entire world. As such, it has the right to take action to remove all obstacles that fetter man's freedom of choice. It is a faith that does not force itself on any individual, it only attacks situations and regimes in order to free individuals from deviant influences that corrupt human nature and restrict man's freedom. — Mark Bowden

Brooklynite Quotes By Rosa Campbell Praed

Character makes its own destiny. — Rosa Campbell Praed

Brooklynite Quotes By Daniel Sada

Reading is perpetual nourishment, never a vehicle for vanity. Intellectuals, in general, are braggarts, perhaps because they do not possess a true interior landscape. Artists are more silent; they are observers and have, naturally, a great capacity for astonishment. Artists are continual absorbers, and it is perhaps only much later that they pick and choose. — Daniel Sada

Brooklynite Quotes By Alexandre Dumas

Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what's possible, they say they can effect themselves. — Alexandre Dumas

Brooklynite Quotes By Sarah Manguso

I keep three kinds of books: those I want to read, those I want to reread, and those I want to reopen just to confirm how bad they are. — Sarah Manguso

Brooklynite Quotes By Tommy Shaw

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing. — Tommy Shaw

Brooklynite Quotes By Marvin L. Cohen

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. — Marvin L. Cohen

Brooklynite Quotes By John White Geary

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. — John White Geary

Brooklynite Quotes By Betty Smith

Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?"
"They're beanies."
"They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn."
"But I'm not in Brooklyn."
"But you're still a Brooklynite."
"I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie."
"You don't mean that, Carl."
"Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie."
"Why?"
"When in Rome do as the Romans do."
"Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly.
"This is the silliest conversation ... — Betty Smith

Brooklynite Quotes By Osho

Always rely on just a happy frame of mind. Let it become one of the fundamental rules of your life. Even if you come across a negative, find something positive in it. You will always be able to find something. And the day you become skillful at finding the positive in the negative, you will dance with joy. — Osho

Brooklynite Quotes By Mitch Kapor

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite. — Mitch Kapor

Brooklynite Quotes By Audre Lorde

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy. — Audre Lorde

Brooklynite Quotes By Ambrose Bierce

Congratulations is the civility of envy. — Ambrose Bierce

Brooklynite Quotes By Thomas Jefferson

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State. — Thomas Jefferson

Brooklynite Quotes By Sara Gruen

It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up. — Sara Gruen

Brooklynite Quotes By Laurel Clark

It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space ... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting. — Laurel Clark