Nancie Brown Quotes & Sayings

Here is the Divine Dichotomy ... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's that simple. — Neale Donald Walsch

Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds — John Stuart Mill

Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Dude," Diesel said. "That's no way to get dessert." Carl snapped to attention. "Eep?" "Cookies," I told him. Carl jumped onto his booster seat, sat ramrod straight, and folded his hands on the table. He was a good monkey. I gave him a cookie, and he shoved it into his mouth. "Manners," Diesel said to him. Carl spit the cookie out onto the table, picked it up, and carefully nibbled at it. — Janet Evanovich

I just want to show her that her life is worth living, that she can't let her past dictate her future. — S.A. Rolls

I should not have ventured out that night; for the taint of thunder was in the clouds, — H.P. Lovecraft

I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable ... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing. — Amy Tan

In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked to consent to it. A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. I've never received an offer from my rulers, so I certainly have not accepted one; and rather than consideration, I have received nothing but contempt from the rulers, who, notwithstanding the absence of any agreement, have indubitably threatened me with grave harm in the event that I fail to comply with their edicts. — Robert Higgs

he had never been meant to be a spy; he was a soldier. a soldier kept his sanity by distancing himself from his enemies, making them something far away and almost inhuman; merely an idea that bled when you stabbed it. — Grace Crandall

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. — Robert Capa