Reckoners Brandon Quotes & Sayings

I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California, and I think that's what this album ['California']feels like - there's endless hope and optimism but there's also a darker side. — Mark Hoppus

Being willing to feel my pain isn't another strategy I can use to avoid my pain. It is genuinely accepting that sometimes stuff really sucks. Sometimes life can really hurt. Sometimes this world isn't what I signed up for. Sometimes I still feel like I would do anything not to have these feelings and these thoughts... Willingness to allow suffering to be there is hard. Damn hard. And often frightening too. And the only thing harder is not being willing to allow suffering to be there. — Ben Sedley

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

from Steelheart (Reckoners #1)
by Brandon Sanderson — Brandon Sanderson

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent. — Stifyn Emrys

I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid — Brandon Sanderson

Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around ... — Joe Teti

If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali. — Chuck Wepner

In the words of that great comedic philosopher Kevin Hart, "We gon' learn today! — Kennedy Ryan

The part of acting business is the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you're supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately. — Amber Tamblyn

I get miserable if I don't eat. — Margot Robbie

Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday ... If you work, you're surrounded by young people who are plugged into the marketplace, the demographic, the zeitgeist; they want your job and someday they're going to get it. — Nora Ephron

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun. — Brandon Sanderson

There is a magic factor that is sometimes on a movie set, that is a really, really beautiful thing that cannot be compared to anything else, if you are somebody that is really passionate about acting or directing or the world of movies. — Penelope Cruz

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. — Eckhart Tolle

I'm still vegetarian - no, pescatarian, because I eat fish. I eat pretty much vegan at home, but when I'm on the road, I'm a bit more flexible. That was the kind of thing I learned as I got older - being flexible with it and listening to my body. — Amanda Crew