Peighton Brown Quotes & Sayings

when you're the first in your family to go to college, you never truly feel like they've let you go. — New York Times

Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society. — Christopher Buckley

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible. — Eric Cantona

... because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world. — Alan Bradley

The angrier the man, the more desperate his love. — Sally MacKenzie

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding. — Peter Mullan

I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines. — Paul Brown

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication. — Anne Lamott

The most important tool ultimately is the person and his or her makeup, and yet it seems to get the least amount of attention and work. — Henry Cloud

Don't be dead now. That time will come. Now is the time to be alive. — Sadghuru

WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE'S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT'S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO TELL THEM THINGS THAT HAPPEN AFTER. — Louise Fitzhugh

We are often told during times of bereavement that time heals all wounds. That's crap. In truth, you are devastated, you mourn, you cry to the point where you think you'll never stop - and then you reach a stage where the survival instinct takes over. You stop. You simply won't or can't let yourself "go there" anymore because the pain was too great. You block. You deny. But you don't really heal. — Harlan Coben

My management style is there is no such thing as non-important people in the company. — Mickey Drexler