Arthur Brisbane Quotes

#1. I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.

Kathryn Perez

#2. [St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.

Arthur Brisbane

#3. The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Arthur Brisbane

#4. Remember, Matt, it's an exercise. That's called autobiography, the second enemy of listening.

Hartley Stevens

#5. Erase the parts that make me unhappy. I guess that means emphasizing the parts that do.

Cassie Mae

#6. Who did you eat this time? (Acheron)
It wasn't a who, akri. It was something that had hornies on its head like me. There were a bunch of them actually. All of them had hornies and they made a strange moo-moo sound. (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Arthur Brisbane

#8. While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments ... the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.

Arthur Brisbane

#9. The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.

Jonathan Mayhew

#10. A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

Arthur Brisbane

#11. Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

Arthur Brisbane

#12. Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Arthur Brisbane

#13. Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#14. The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

Frances Wright

#15. Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian's. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being trusted.
But that doesn't mean I love you less.

Melina Marchetta

#16. You can be rich or deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it

George Orwell

#17. Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Arthur Brisbane

#18. Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.

Joseph De Maistre

#19. Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.

Arthur Brisbane

#20. If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Arthur Brisbane

#21. Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

Arthur Brisbane

#22. Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.

Arthur Brisbane

#23. It's all right. It doesn't matter what you do. We're dreaming, you know.

Cassandra Clare

#24. Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Arthur Brisbane

#25. A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane

#26. The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Arthur Brisbane

#27. managing a company by looking at financial data (lag measures) is the equivalent of "driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

Chris McChesney

#28. Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Arthur Brisbane

#29. We're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.

Van Jones

#30. I'll still be missing you as much as ever. I'l still smile at the memory of you. I'll still be - Okay, I'll say it again - loving you, but I won't abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.

Jerry Spinelli

#31. The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

Arthur Brisbane

#32. Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

Arthur Brisbane

#33. Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

Arthur Brisbane