Mack Brown Motivational Quotes & Sayings

I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man. — T Bone Burnett

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food. — David Suzuki

A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure. — J. J. Hardy

If we are not taught about love when our brains and hearts are forming, we may never even recognize it when it stands in front of us. We may even run from it. We would miss out on the one thing that makes life worth living. — Kate McGahan

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope. — Daniel Berrigan

Sydney: Can I ask you a question? Me: As long as you promise never again to start a question off with whether or not you can propose a question. Sydney: Okay, asshole. I know I shouldn't be thinking about him at all, but I'm curious. What did he wrote on that paper when we went to get my purse? And what did you write back that made hit you? Me: I agree that you shouldn't be thinking about him at all, but I'm honestly shocked it's taken you this long to ask me about it. Sydney: Well? Ugh. I hate writing it verbatim, but she wants to know, so ... Me: He wrote "Are you fucking her?" Sydney: OMG! What a prick! Me: Yep. Sydney: So what did you say back to him that made him punch you? Me: I write, "Why do you think I'm here for her purse? I gave her a hundred for tonight, and now she owes me change." I reread the text, and I'm not so sure it sounds as funny as I thought it did. — Colleen Hoover

Boys don't smell the same as girls. They have a pungent, leathery, underneath smell, like old rope, like damp dogs. — Margaret Atwood

You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole. — Douglas Adams

It is better to exist unknow to the law.
Irish Proverb — Dorien Kelly

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That's why I'm trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning. — Stephen Chbosky

I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it. — Lauren Iungerich

One has to be careful, whenever one tells a story about a great injustice. We are a species that loves narrative, but has been taught not to trust an individual speaker. — Ken Liu

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard. — Sarah Clarke

Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me. — Additi Gupta