Massell Brandeis Quotes & Sayings

Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work ... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty. — Melanie McGrath

58. "Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing" (Leonardo da Vinci). — Maggie Nelson

I figured out 'The Sixth Sense' in the first 10 minutes. I still found the movie touching. — Allen Coulter

There is no short-cut to awesome. — Zoe Winters

Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person. — Amy Smith

Each day, the world is made fresh again, holy, and she takes it in, in all its raw intensity, like a young child. She feels something bloom in her chest - joy or grief, eventually they are inseparable. The world is so acutely beautiful, for all its horrors, that she will be sorry to leave it. — Debra Dean

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. — Beryl Bainbridge

If I go racing tomorrow and I have five rides that all get beaten, all I want to do is get out there the next day and put it right. I hate having Sundays off; I hate having any day off. — Tony McCoy

Why couldn't life be like the movies where the women faint when they get overwhelmed? — Charity Parkerson

There is no happiness for any individual, man or woman, who does not dwell within the broad zone of average. Pandora — Lisa Kleypas

If you want someone to tell you what to think ... "
"You will never be short of people willing to do so. — Frances Hardinge

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself. — Coco Chanel

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people. — Herbert Hoover

I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay. Only he wasn't real. Like Austen's characters, he was fiction. Mr. Darcy broke my heart. — Beth Pattillo