Braithwaite Quotes

#1. Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill men. And I learned well.

Bernard Cornwell

#2. Arthur Braithwaite, known to Louisa and the children as God. And all right, strictly speaking Braithwaite did not exist. Why should he? Not every god has to exist in order to do his job.

John Le Carre

#3. Long drawn, the cool, green shadows
Steal o'er the lake's warm breast,
And the ancient silence follows
The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,
And dreams of countless Junes,
Return when the lake-wind murmurs
Through golden August noons.

William Braithwaite

#4. Be who you are because that's you and you are beautiful.

Jada Berglund

#5. I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

Suzy Menkes

#6. The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.

Eliza Griswold

#7. Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

Nancy Grace

#8. The sleep of reason encourages the elections.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#9. There's no corporal punishment here, or any other form of punishment for that matter, and the children are encouraged to speak up for themselves. Unfortunately, they're not always particularly choosey about the things they say, and it can be rather alarming and embarrassing.

E.R. Braithwaite

#10. After years of pitched battles, my father was ready for a significantly less stressful career. Unfortunately, he decided to try raising a girl.

Brian K. Vaughan

#11. You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Rumi

#12. To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day.

Max Braithwaite

#13. My heart gives thanks for empty moments given to dreams, and for thoughtful people who help those dreams come true

William Braithwaite

#14. They're stackable, like Tetris. All beverages should be stackable.

Penny Reid

#15. Our lives are crazy. When moments to remember happen, you have to pause a second to appreciate them. Otherwise none of this is worth it. And getting married to you is definitely a moment to remember." ~ Kellan Kyle

S.C. Stephens

#16. Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.

E.R. Braithwaite

#17. realized at that moment that I was British, but evidently not a Briton, and that fine differentiation was now very important; I

E.R. Braithwaite

#18. Perfection is the enemy of authenticity.

Lisa Braithwaite

#19. He didn't miss what he didn't know, what he couldn't feel in his hands or his heart.

Yaa Gyasi

#20. Rose shifted her shopping bag off her lap and with a grunt levered her ponderous body upright; she smiled broadly at me, and with a cheery "Ta Gert, ta girls," she waddled towards the exit while I eased my shoulders in relief from the confining pressure of her body. God, what a huge woman.

E.R. Braithwaite

#21. So long as we learn it doesn't matter who teaches us, does it?

E.R. Braithwaite

#22. It was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everything that was not white or English.

E.R. Braithwaite

#23. A man who is strong and tough never needs to show it in his dress or the way he cuts his hair. Toughness is a quality of the mind, like bravery or honesty or ambition; it has nothing whatever to do with muscles.

E.R. Braithwaite

#24. Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I'd learn. Nothing was going to stop me.

E.R. Braithwaite

#25. We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.

Susanna Kaysen

#26. It's easier to make a good person better than to make a bad person good.

Michael Josephson

#27. You don't have to have sex to find a feeling of closeness and understanding. Lord knows I feel that way about you. Use that to shackle your hunger. Isn't that what love is?

Kim Harrison

#28. It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

Keith Braithwaite

#29. The best thing you can ever have is peace of mind, it is a basking fire to keep a cold heart in warmth, and a fortified confidence to be proud of.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#30. People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good.

John Braithwaite

#31. was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everything that was not white or English. I

E.R. Braithwaite

#32. For you, a thousand times over - The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

#33. I sat looking at her, completely lost for words; women say the damnedest things.

E.R. Braithwaite