Brownstoner Quotes & Sayings

Prayer is an inner journey, the ultimate destination of self-discovery rather than a desired destination. — Marjorie Daun Timberlake-Linton

What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day. — Hal Higdon

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand. — Bobby Jones

The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her? — Penelope Douglas

Metaphoric sheep get no love. There's no worse thing to be compared to, at least among conspiracy theorists. "You're just a sheep," they will say. "You believe what they want you to believe." But this implies that they - the metaphoric shepherds - have something they want you to accept. It implies that these world-altering shepherds are consciously leading their sheeple to a conclusion that plays to their benefit. No one considers the possibility of a shepherd just aimlessly walking around the meadow, pointing his staff in whatever direction he happens to be facing. — Chuck Klosterman

Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out across some voluminous tome, the thought is ready-made, the heavy lifting done. It's there to be used like a weapon or tool, and as time wanders on, seemingly leaving us fewer and fewer new things to say, it becomes ever more useful. As technology moves forward, as well, it also becomes much easier. Indeed, in this "information age" where so much is available to so many so quickly that enlightenment nearly verges on light pollution, it can sometimes appear that expression has been reduced to nothing more than a mad race to unearth and claim references. As such, the citation is also there to be donned, like some article of fashion from which we may reap the praise of discriminating taste without ever exerting ourself in the actual toil of manufacture. — Jasper Siegel Seneschal

Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess. — Ashot Nadanian

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break. — John D. Voelker

Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other. — Stephanie S. Covington

People who roll their eyes are stupid, — Andrew Hilbert