Miss Brahms Quotes & Sayings

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson

That was the heart of the difference, she thought. In her world she had learned to be . Other people seemed to gain their sense of identity and worth from doing. — Mary Balogh

I met eight great members. I really don't think that anyone else could get along like how our nine girls get along so well. Because we're girls, there can be a lot of jealousy going on. Thinking back on it now, I think I'm a kid who received a lot of good fortune. — Kim Hyo-yeon

Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn. — Michael J. Fox

Never blame the man: his hard-pressed
Ancestors formed him: the other anthropoid apes were safe
In the great southern rain-forest and hardly changed
In a million years: but the race of man was made
By shock and agony ...
... a wound was made in the brain
When life became too hard, and has never healed.
It is there that they learned trembling religion and blood-
sacrifice,
It is there that they learned to butcher beasts and to slaughter
men,
And hate the world. — Robinson Jeffers

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery. — Anne Sexton

My chest rising and falling with
my impatience. I was going to be the first person in history to ever die from lust. Female blue balls. — T.M. Frazier

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. — Vincent Canby

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time. — Bertrand Russell

If you live by the same values and priorities [Jesus] had, you will find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a life-style and not a project. — Rebecca Pippert