Brownstones In Nyc Quotes & Sayings

Why do some trees stay green while others change their color?"

"Certain trees need to show off, dear. I'm sure that my big brother could explain why it happens. Dahlaine loves to explain things, and he can be very tedious about it. I prefer simpler answers. The trees are sad because summer's almost over. — David Eddings

The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first. — Ronald Reagan

Did you really just say 'by the mighty power of Thor'?" "I'm trying to cuss less. — Penny Reid

I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves ... — Antonin Artaud

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error? — Lincoln Chafee

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind. — Mahatma Gandhi

Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted. — Carl Sagan

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand. — Judah Friedlander

I love his threatenings as most just ... — J.I. Packer

I'm watching some television tonight. I'm watching The Discovery Channel. You know, this channel, you never ever plan on watching this. It just happens. You're flickin' around, all of a sudden - boom - you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half. — Dane Cook

For he used to say ... that knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer. — Thomas Mann

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Handsome men could cast spells of magic that would cloud a woman's mind, no matter how chaste she was. — Emma Lane