Golden Son Pierce Brown Quotes & Sayings

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling. — Gail Collins

And how could someone like her, someone with so much self-worth, bare herself and throw her heart at a man who gave so little in return? — Pierce Brown

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye ... — Joshua Reynolds

In a world of killers, it takes more to be kind than to be wicked. — Pierce Brown

I am a child of hell, and I've spent too long in their heaven. — Pierce Brown

I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it. — Glenn Ford

To prosper, your superior must prosper. — Pierce Brown

I wanted Red Rising to be the Cave from the Republic. The dark cradle in which you see shadows on the wall and you think you know existence. Then they get out of the cave, and shit look at those space ships and the feuds and the size of everything.

It's hard to come right out and introduce people to a Space Opera. I wanted to lull them into one — Pierce Brown

I have nine different weapons concealed on my body right now. Would you like to choose the one I use to shoot you in the face? Or should i? — Tahereh Mafi

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth. — Edmund Phelps

I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized. — Ada Yonath

We never asked to bow. Who is he to say Red and Browns toiling to death is for the greater good? Who is he to say Pink children being harvested for rape, Obsidians and Grays for battle, is a necessity? How can he sit there and say that he alone knows what is best for me, for my family? It's not his right — Pierce Brown

virtue can flower only when there is freedom. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats. — Pierce Brown

Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them. — Pierce Brown

If you look at 'Golden Son,' it was just a focused, isolated battle for Mars. — Pierce Brown

Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it's not meant to be, isn't a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It's actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all. — Peter Enns

Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament. — Sophie B. Hawkins

For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am. — Yuliya Snigir