Brave New World Ch 13 Quotes

#1. Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

Pope Francis

#2. eagle chicks left in the same nest would soon come to vicious fighting.

Dan Jones

#3. Greatness is what remains when that talent and vision meet adversity - and persist in the face of it.

Lewis Howes

#4. We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

John Morgridge

#5. I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.

Jon Tester

#6. I don't change my style for anybody. Pussies do that.

Michael Bay

#7. When coming to the fork in the road, be cautious of the direction you choose in life.

Angela Khristin Brown

#8. I know that you make me laugh, and that I love hearing your voice, especially when you sing. I know that I haven't stopped thinking about you since the day you sat down beside me at that coffee shop.

Cora Carmack

#9. The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.

Charles Baxter

#10. In short I will part with anything for you but you.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#11. Are you fighting evil tonight? ... Then you are doing the Lord's work. Shut the fuck up.

James R Tuck

#12. Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game.

Anson Dorrance

#13. We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.

Umberto Eco

#14. How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself?

Anne Frank