Brunstein Bears Quotes & Sayings

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. — Thomas Huxley

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull. — Alan Bennett

Man is a political animal' said Aristotle telling one of the greatest lies in human history. For every man has more in common with the hills and with the stars than with other men. — William S. Burroughs

There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat. — Jared Leto

Where you moonlight you will find wolves, and your world will burn beneath them. — Lucy V. Morgan

god i just broke so many new year's resolutions. — Meg Pokrass

You told me men don't do this."
"Do what?"
She walked around the counter, speaking animatedly. "Two years ago. We were at Firelight, having drinks. Cade and I had split up and you said that men don't mope around after a breakup. You said that men avoid issues, get drunk, and pick up a new girl to forget the old one - but that you don't brood."
Ford held out his hands in disbelief. "How do you remember that? And I'm not brooding."
She folded her arms across her chest and looked at him.
"I know you're my friend," he said. "But please, for once, can you just act like you have a penis?
Because I don't want to talk about this."
She shrugged. "Fine. We'll just sit here and listen to music." She reached for his phone again.
"Have you heard Taylor Swift's new song?"
"No."
"Well, you're going to - on endless repeat until you start talking. — Julie James

We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on. — Andrew O'Hagan

Don't say it. Don't say nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. Don't tell me it doesn't matter because it does. And don't tell me I look fine because that's a lie. I'm a freak, Mom. Look at me. — Jodi Picoult

When you suffer, you are being conformed to the image of Jesus. When you pray, you are being made holy in the image of Jesus. When you quietly serve a person in need, you are being shaped into the image of Jesus. When you generously give, your heart is being remade into the image of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. — Allen R. Hunt

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. — Henry David Thoreau

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea. — Harrison Birtwistle