Bruto U Quotes & Sayings

The apprenticeship to passivity - I know nothing more contrary to our habits. (The modern age begins with two hysterics: Don Quixote and Luther.) If we make time, produce and elaborate it, we do so out of our repugnance to the hegemony of essence and to the contemplative submission it presupposes. Taoism seems to me wisdom's first and last word: yet I resist it, my instincts reject it, as they refuse to endure anything - the heredity of revolt is too much for us. Our disease? Centuries of attention to time, the idolatry of becoming. What recourse to China or India will heal us? — Emil Cioran

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it. — Patrick White

The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out. — Jay Sekulow

God does not like lazy people, He likes those who work — Sunday Adelaja

They would be able to tell. Even the most bruto would see the death in your eyes. — Junot Diaz

The meek shall inherit the earth meant nothing to me. The meek were battered in West Baltimore, stomped out at Walbrook Junction, bashed up on Park Heights, and raped in the showers of the city jail. My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. — Luke The Evangelist

At times, productivity means doing nothing at all. — Gina Greenlee

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true. — Al Gore

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better. — Tony Dungy

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future. — Neil Gaiman

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles. — Don Nickles

There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with this." Who would make their plants hard to reach? That seems so very mean. I know you need water, but I'm going to make you hard to reach. "Think like a cactus!" — Mitch Hedberg