The Brass Verdict Quotes & Sayings

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical. — Frederick Lenz

But then she often felt like this lately. The world seemed full of transparent frauds that only she could see through. She was forever shouting from the hustings of honesty, though if any honesty were directed at her she ran from it horrified. And she knew it, laughed at herself for it, wretchedly. She was all to pieces. — Jude Morgan

New information technologies are tools - and to have an impact, tools need users, who in turn need goals, direction, and motivation. — Moises Naim

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. — Melvyn Bragg

Sometimes people hurt more than they can handle ... And sometimes they don't know how to ask for help. They're so caught up in their own pain, they end up hurting everyone around them. — Rebecca Donovan

We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves. — Joseph Hall

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside. — Robert Redford

Be ye therefore as wise as the serpents and as harmless as the doves. — Paulo Coelho

You can't bomb a people just in case. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I'd like that translated, if I may. — Harold Macmillan

I have a man, she said. And my man tall and good-looking. What have you? Nothing that I can see. — Abigail George

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space. — William T. Vollmann

Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity offered to few presidents: the chance to set the course of the nation for decades, if not generations, to come. Who knows: perhaps in the near future, our grandchildren will spend money with Obama's face on it. — Chuck Todd

My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time? — Ernest K. Gann