Top 100 Brenda Quotes
#1. This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think again.
Brenda Perlin
#2. I thought I would have a heart attack just looking at you.
Brenda Hodnett
#3. I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.
Brenda Shaughnessy
#4. Sounds to me like you're praying Violet, not wishing. When we wish, it's usually for something frivolous...Something not serious. Like what you want for your birthday. Prayers are for more serious things." -Mom
Brenda Woods
#6. You done decided you want to go to the dance yet Brenda?" "Didn't I tell you that dances was lame?" "What's lame about them?" "I like mature niggas." "I'm not a nigga." "What are you?" "An African American." "Well I don't like African Americans. I like niggas.
Vincent Morris
#7. The sound of shuffling pages filled the room like a delicate rainstorm falling on dried leaves.
Brenda Pandos
#8. heart of mine has been shattered in a million pieces - but even during the worst of times, I had you. One of God's tender mercies. Love, Phoenix
Brenda Novak
#9. False hope," she said. "Guess that's better then no hope at all.
James Dashner
#10. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#11. People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
Brenda Blethyn
#12. The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.
Tom Limoncelli
#13. You cannot see a person's heart, belief or motive unless it identifies itself with an action.
Brenda Johnson Padgitt
#14. No matter how far you are in a tunnel there will always be light at the end
Brenda Cas
#15. The last thing I expected to happen was for him to jump over the cliff, carrying me with him in the process.
Brenda Pandos
#16. She was like me; too wounded to be blindly optimistic anymore.
Brenda Rothert
#17. Life is full of surprises" she said softly."It's hardly ever black and white.
Brenda Joyce
#18. I was just a little girl watching TV and wanting to be in it. My parents had no idea how to get me there, but here I am as a part of this great cast on the Disney Channel. Truly, if you just want to do this, then you have to commit to it.
Brenda Song
#19. At night when they prepared for bed Freda removed all her clothes and lay like a great fretful baby, majestically dimpled and curved. Brenda wore her pajamas and her underwear and a tweed coat - that was the difference between them.
Beryl Bainbridge
#20. Gin! Gran said and the rest of the group moaned. I smiled. Things
Brenda Pandos
#21. The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.
Brenda Peterson
#23. Empathy, the way that we can place ourselves, imaginatively, in the position of another person, is at the heart of what we do as readers, as people striving for a generous understanding of one another.
Brenda Walker
#24. Why did he have to be sensible? This maddened me. It was my body. I should be able to decide when and if I needed medical attention. I let out a determined huff. They could try to make me go, but I wouldn't be forced.
Brenda Pandos
#25. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Brenda Ueland
#26. By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).
Brenda Ueland
#27. I struggle to listen, to sit, and to study-
I would rather play and create art with my brushes and putty.
I wish I could focus on things that I know-
Like cars, Mars, and playing with dough.
Brenda Lochinger
#28. We're instant ambassadors. Just add robot body and voila! If they'd told us anything real, they might have had to kill us.
Brenda Cooper
#29. The spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.
Brenda Ueland
#30. Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.
Norman Mailer
#31. It is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.
Brenda Ueland
#32. John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.
Brenda Lee
#33. I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.
Brenda Blethyn
#34. They cannot understand that the figure of a laborer - some furrows in a plowed field, a bit of sand, sea and sky - are serious objects, so difficult but at the same time so beautiful, that it is indeed worth while to devote one's life to the task of expressing the poetry hidden in them.
Brenda Ueland
#35. Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices.
Brenda Waggoner
#36. I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect.
Brenda Brathwaite
#37. We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.
Brenda Shoshanna
#39. I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.
Brenda Lee
#40. But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.
Mel Tillis
#41. Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
Brenda Ueland
#42. If there was one thing Brenda Dyerson was good at, she knew it, was cooking up the scraps destiny had laid out on its plates for her.
Tiffany Baker
#43. When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.
Brenda Lee
#44. Having fins in the water was useful to travel quickly, but the bulky appendage left much to be desired for exerting dominance. Something about being unable to sit, legs open, left me feeling feminine."
~Fin
Brenda Pandos
#45. I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
Brenda Laurel
#46. You do not know what is in you - an inexhaustible fountain of ideas.
Brenda Ueland
#47. I didn't want to get burned. I didn't want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.
Brenda Perlin
#48. To paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.
Brenda Ueland
#50. Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.
Brenda Shoshanna
#51. Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
Brenda Ueland
#52. A good book laces invisible fingers into the shape of a winter armchair or a hammock in the sun. I'm not talking about comfort, necessarily, but support. A good writer might take you to strange and difficult places, but you're in the hands of someone you trust.
Brenda Walker
#53. Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.
Brenda Shoshanna
#54. Prayers and wishes should always be good, but we all think bad thoughts when our feelings get hurt. It's human, V." -Mom
Brenda Woods
#55. Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw it away. Try writing utterly unplanned stories and see what comes out.
Brenda Ueland
#56. I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at Sir-Tech to put myself through college.
Brenda Brathwaite
#57. He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, but it eludes me. I've been trying to catch a ghost for as long as I can remember.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#58. We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
Brenda Ueland
#60. If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.
Brenda Shoshanna
#61. learn pretty damn fast that everything else is smoke and mirrors. Fame. Money. Success. You realize that life is fleeting and family's what it's all about. It's the only thing that matters.
Brenda Novak
#62. The great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
Brenda Ueland
#63. Accepting a situation doesn't mean you have to be okay with it. You can take steps to change things, but then you need to detach from the outcome & accept how things turn out. You keep doing your best & accept reality. If you keep getting upset over things you have no control over, you have no peace
Brenda Wilhelmson
#64. Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.
Brenda Shaughnessy
#65. Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.
Brenda Shoshanna
#66. I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.
Brenda Joyce
#67. And then one day, one of my daughters sat me down and told me that even though he was gone, I wasn't. That it was time to find a new life for myself.
Brenda Rothert
#68. A great musician once told me that one should never play a single note without hearing it, feeling that it is true, thinking it beautiful.
Brenda Ueland
#69. It made me wonder if home really was a place, or if it was more about who was there waiting for you at the end of the day.
Brenda Rothert
#70. I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.
Brenda Blethyn
#71. Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.
Brenda Jackson
#72. 'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.
Brenda Lee
#73. The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.
Brenda Lee
#74. The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.
Brenda Shoshanna
#75. You hold the key. And you can keep it in your hand for as long as you need to. But there will come a point where you're ready to use that key to break out of the jail you've put yourself in. Only you can set yourself free.
Brenda Rothert
#76. You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.
Brenda Fassie
#77. He looked at the menu dreamily. 'God, it's good to be eating in France again.'
'It's good to be eating again,' said Brenda.
'But it's nice to resume the habit in France.'
'That's true of so many habits.
Jack Iams
#78. When we separate our artistic activity from daily life, we cut ourselves off from our most valuable creative resource. However, if we live life as an art form in itself, we have available to us all that we experience and see.
Brenda Tharp
#79. I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
Brenda Fassie
#80. Great seaweed! She thought. What possessed me to bite that poor merman's arm? Gahhh. One kiss and I'm a - a flesh-eating monster? Seriously?
Brenda Pandos
#81. At 2:00 sharp on the afternoon of his internment, with his body resting in a casket in the front room of his home, the pallbearers--all bridge players--stuck a deck of cards in Mr. Hampton's cold hands, shut the lid over his head, and played bridge.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#82. Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow.
Evelyn Waugh
#84. You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me.
Brenda Novak
#85. Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.
Brenda Ueland
#86. Running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!
Brenda Ueland
#87. At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers.
Brenda Brathwaite
#88. A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.
Brenda Holloway
#89. We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.
Brenda Ueland
#90. Lord help me take the knife out of my back and not place it on my tongue.
Brenda DeMoss Lanz
#91. He couldn't have what he'd once had; he'd already destroyed it.
Brenda Novak
#92. We like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.
Brenda Ueland
#94. Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
Brenda Ueland
#95. She was ruined. She'd become anathema - the
Brenda Novak
#96. You are the light of the world. Shine brightly. Smile beautifully! Rejoice daily!
Brenda M. McGraw
#97. I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.
Brenda Lee
#98. I know this isn't easy for anyone - nothing worth doing is every easy" Brenda to Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear
#99. I watched him, mesmerized. The ink of his tattoos bespoke the path he'd walked to get to me. A skull and crossbones on his hip. His daughter's initial on one side of his chest and the words 'Sine metu' on the other. I'd learned Latin in college and I knew it meant 'without fear'.
Brenda Rothert
#100. Somehow, we both got carried away. I don't know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.
Brenda Perlin
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