Mings Brookfield Quotes & Sayings

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything. — Pat Robertson

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man. — Oswald Chambers

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there. — Bill Bryson

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house. — Benjamin Franklin

I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply. — Alessandra Torre

In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track. — Isak Dinesen

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result. — Steve Forbes

To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map. — Abhijit Naskar

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future. — Barbara Jordan

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines. — Patricia Clarkson

Folks around here like to say we came from the stars. Perhaps it's simpler to think of us not as human but as creatures made of stardust
that if you cut us, not blood but constellations will pour from out wounds. — Leslye Walton

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped. — Sean Connery

Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. — Patricia Briggs

When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach. — Betty White