Brechling Andersen Quotes

#1. The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

Denis Dutton

#2. Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

Jean Paul

#3. It is the central irony of my life that when I want something and end up getting it, it makes me profoundly uncomfortable.

Jennifer Armintrout

#4. I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.

Matthea Harvey

#5. The place smelled like Sam
or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Survival...could only be a social achievement, not an individual accident.

Eugene Weinstock

#7. I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others

Kay Hooper

#8. What did you do?" Fred asked. "There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it." "Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it?" "But

James S.A. Corey

#9. We can be honest and transparent about our sins and failures because we aren't the ones fighting. Jesus fought for us. This is good news because it means we are free to be messed up.

Jefferson Bethke

#10. I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#11. People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

#12. Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

Satish Kumar

#13. Your life was meant to be epic. Stand up for your best today.

Robin Sharma

#14. How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

Larry Page

#15. Sad to hear news about Michael Weiner, deepest condolences to his loved ones. His sacrifices as head of players union will not be forgotten.

Jose Bautista