Ysabel Brown Quotes & Sayings

She would let a speeding automobile hit her to show them all how unloved she was. — Lisa Dierbeck

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once. — David Gilmour

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea. — Jake Gyllenhaal

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a
sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof — John F. Kennedy

It is almost impossible to fall in love with majesty, power, or perfection. These make us fearful and codependent, but seldom truly loving. On some level, love can only happen between equals, and vulnerability levels the playing field. What Christians believe is that God somehow became our equal when he became the human "Jesus," a name that is, without doubt, the vulnerable name for God. — Richard Rohr

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. — Philip Sidney

Why is it a shame for me to cause
them to die and try to exterminate
them, tell me? You did not talk that
way when you used to come to my house
in Jeanne-d'Arc street. Ah! it is a
shame! You have not done as much,
with your cross of honor! I deserve
more merit than you, do you understand,
more than you, for I have killed more Prussians than you! — Guy De Maupassant

Women ought to be religious; faith was the natural fragrance of their minds. The more incredible the things they believed, the more lovely was the act of belief. To him the story of "Paradise Lost" was as mythical as the "Odyssey"; yet when his mother read it aloud to him, it was not only beautiful but true. A woman who didn't have holy thoughts about mysterious things far away would be prosaic and commonplace, like a man. — Willa Cather

Whenever I hear about parents who have nine or ten children, the only thing I wonder is how they survive the birthday parties. — George Carlin

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth. — Simone Weil

If only people stopped acting like they've been asked to donate a lung every time somebody asks for something the world would be a better place — Alina Radoi

Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets. — Elizabeth Yates