Trainman Brodie Quotes & Sayings

I mean it's purposeful, even if we don't realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind ... . — Deb Caletti

And if (as I said before) what we are matters even more than what we do - if, indeed, what we do matters chiefly as evidence of what we are - then it follows that the change which I most need to undergo is a change that my own direct, voluntary efforts cannot bring about. And this applies to my good actions too. How many of them were done for the right motive? How many for fear of public opinion, or a desire to show off? How many from a sort of obstinacy or sense of superiority which, in different circumstances, might equally have led to some very bad act? But I cannot, by direct moral effort, give myself new motives. After the first few steps in the Christian life we realise that everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God. — C.S. Lewis

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. — Gloria Steinem

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one. — Gwyneth Paltrow

depression is a deep sadness that does not go away. — Jim Fields

Highways are nice and paved, and they have signs telling you which way to go. Life isn't like that at all. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears. — Douglas Adams

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.'
To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so. — Simone Weil

-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy — William Golding

Honestly, as much as I love my brother, I'm not sure how I feel about him hanging out in your bedroom." He reached out with a muscular arm and used his fingers to brush a few strands of hair off my cheek, tucking them behind my ear. I shivered, and he smiled. "I feel like I need to mark my territory." "Shut up." "Oh, I love it when you get all bossy-pants. It's sexy. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

SMITH TREASURE," she read softly. "It was the kids, right? That's what they were trying to say. In the house. Everywhere. The SMITH TREASURE was the kids. — Janet S. Anderson

I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit. — Karl Pilkington