Bruschke 2435 Quotes & Sayings

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible. — Jean Dubuffet

It was harder, I thought, to watch someone in pain than to be in it yourself. — Maggie Stiefvater

For Carter, it was as if the ghosts of Watergate stalked the halls of the White House. As with most ghosts, he wasn't sure they existed, where they were or how to exorcise them. — Bob Woodward

Then they'd looked at each other, realization — Kristan Higgins

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. — William Wordsworth

Stroll around and look sexy, ask annoying questions, in general get on everyone's nerves. All those things that come naturally to you. — Janet Evanovich

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe. — Joseph Campbell

Historiography -- commonly and often simultaneously defined as the study of historians' scholarship, how history has been and is contrived, the history of historical writing, and the body of historical scholarship on historical subject matter -- is, therefore, essential to understand when studying history. — Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously. — Malaclypse The Younger

The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ... They are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence, uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made on one side or the other. They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices and all kinds of cajolery. Education in the critical faculty is the only education of which it can be truly said that it makes good citizens. — William Graham Sumner

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional. — Richard Burton

Hope is not a plan of action. — Susan Jacoby

Some people are not meant to be a part of our lives forever. Some people visit our lives for a brief period, not to stay in it, but to show us something that we have been unable to see it ourselves. In the form of a gift, a lesson or a piece of wisdom, they change the course of our life and help us to fulfill our destiny. — Purba Chakraborty

The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole. — Eric Hoffer