Real Brutha Quotes & Sayings

Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half. — Lisa Birnbach

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration. — Catherine Deneuve

The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat and clarity of the sun. — J.J. Brown

Being sick is itself a kind of ressentiment. - Against this the invalid has only one great means of cure - I call it Russian fatalism, that fatalism without rebellion with which a Russian soldier for whom the campaign has become too much at last lies down in the snow. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care. — Barbara Ehrenreich

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. — Max De Pree

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies. — Elie Wiesel

She tried to scream once, but with significant portions of her larynx already compromised, what she managed was more of a powerful, wet exhalation. — James S.A. Corey

The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it. — Rachel Sklar

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been. — Eric Sevareid

encounter a multitude of other agents. My keyboard, the words unfolding on the Microsoft Word interface, the books piled beside my computer, the flashing cursor, — Anonymous

During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is because the U.S. Government was neglecting its true responsibilities they agreed to in exchange for our land and resources. What I and others attempted to do, and in essence we did, was bring attention to our sovereign rights, the rights we had retained when the treaties were made. — Leonard Peltier

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. — Alexander Pope

The best meal I was served was ribollita, an Italian bread soup at the Castello di Ama winery in Tuscany. I usually hate ribollita, and the people I was traveling with thought I was crazy for ordering it. — Tom Douglas