Brailsford Quotes

#1. Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
Nor snow, which falling from the sky
Hovers in its virginity.

Henry Noel Brailsford

#2. Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, ...

Jean Giraudoux

#3. Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#4. (...)no one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it and makes you believe that it is yours to take.

Tristan Wood

#5. These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#6. Actually, if American business is going to succeed, we are going to need hundreds, or even thousands, of miracles.

Peter Thiel

#7. The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. My face and skin trick is to moisturise well in the winter time, because the weather eats up your skin, and I never go to sleep with make up on. Someone told me it ages you ten years.

Kelly Rowland

#9. I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

James McBride

#10. There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.

Ahmet Ertegun

#11. I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it ... But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

Joseph Boyden

#12. I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Khaled Hosseini

#13. They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

Henry Noel Brailsford

#14. I buy way too many books.

Orson Scott Card

#15. Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
Roses do blush and hang their heads

Henry Noel Brailsford

#16. A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Randolph Bourne

#17. Football was never my life. The guys [and] the relationships were my life. I have an ability to relate to damn near everybody.

John Riggins