Brownlie And Braden Quotes & Sayings

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges. — Katharine Hepburn

Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices. — David Harsanyi

In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack of systematic thinking. Science to them consists of a number of successful raids into the unknown. — John Desmond Bernal

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people. — Rodney Brooks

But why do his ears stick out so oddly? Did he have his hair cut? — Leo Tolstoy

I have called her beautiful, because it was her moral beauty that at once attracted me. True beauty after all consists in purity of heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn't a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he said that was why he and I made out just fine there, because we were both tough nuts. — Jeannette Walls

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

There are no rules by which intellectuals
can know what to say or do; nor for the true
secular intellectual are there any gods to be worshiped and looked to for unwavering guidance. — Edward Said

Q: How can I help myself?
A: By remembering the proverb: 'The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service', from Saadi. — Idries Shah

My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right. We try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path. ... . But the mountain is there to be crossed. It is on that pilgrimage, as we climb higher, that we are forced to shed the layers upon layers we have carried for so long. Then we find that our load is lighter, and we have come to know something of ourselves in the perilous climb ... ..Do not seek to avoid the mountain, my child. For it has been placed there at a perfect time. It will only become larger if you seek to delay or draw back from the ascent. — Jacqueline Winspear