Top 100 Brent's Quotes
#1. The wind picked up intensity as Brent's lips found
mine, and I decided our training sessions were going to be
a lot of fun.
Lani Woodland
#2. The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.
Paul Fleischman
#3. Everything squeezed, and warm cum spilled over Brent's hand, oozing onto the pillow beside his head. Brent bitterly lamented that he couldn't taste it, but no matter what had been said, one didn't swallow on the first date.
Jet Mykles
#4. That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good.
Brent Weeks
#5. It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on without me. And I - I'm not ready to be alone.
Brent Jones
#6. Beyond that, I learned about visual adaptation - what a picture can say, and what it can't. A picture's worth a thousand words, but its vocabulary is limited. A picture's no sesquipedalian.
Brent Weeks
#7. By the late 1990s, it was almost as if the Orwellian scenario of the Mac's "1984" commercial had come true. Big Business, with a pair of capital B's, ruled computing. The drones used what they were told.
Brent Schlender
#8. It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
Brent Weeks
#9. We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them.
John Grisham
#10. George W. Bush said, "It will take time to restore chaos." Brent was about to confront Bush's creation head on.
Kenneth Eade
#11. Ohhh, OH no you didn't!" he screams. "Nobody touches the TERRY!" Then he starts punching himself in he face. This kid really is crazy! I may not even have to fight him. He's doing it for me, and I'm winning!
Brent Crawford
#12. My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job ... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'
Brent Sexton
#13. It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.
Brent Weeks
#14. It's easier to build a new culture on the graves of the dead than around the homes of the living.
Brent Weeks
#15. The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
Brent Sexton
#16. Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.
Brent Weeks
#17. should go see Steve," he whispered in his ear. "He's out in the parking lot crying.
Brent Schlender
#18. Whenever anyone suggested that she looked as if she'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, she used to groan loudly and ram in a few more pins until her head was a complete porcupine's back of hairpins!
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
#19. The fact is, there's a difference between being alone and being lonely; I may not of been completely alone in life, but I was definitely lonely.
Brent Hartinger
#20. You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.
Brent Weeks
#21. A man's greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
Brent Weeks
#22. Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.
Brent Weeks
#24. It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.
Brent Jones
#25. When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.
Brent Musburger
#26. Ed Catmull has thought a lot about the role luck plays at a great company, and how businesspeople manage that luck. It's all in the preparedness, he says, and in creating a culture that can adapt to the unexpected. "These things are always going to happen. What separates you is your response,
Brent Schlender
#27. Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.
Brent Sexton
#28. Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy ... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.
Brent Smith
#29. People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
Brent Spiner
#30. 'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.
Brent Weeks
#31. Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.
Brent Sexton
#32. Even winning means nothing. We win because it's an insult to lose.
Brent Weeks
#33. Steve was innately comfortable trusting his gut; it's a characteristic of the best entrepreneurs, a necessity for anyone who wants to make a living developing things no one has ever quite imagined before.
Brent Schlender
#34. Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.
Brent Spiner
#35. Less weight and less strength just means you need to be smarter.
Brent Weeks
#36. You've got choices to make, but here's another hard truth: you can't be whatever you want to be. The list of things you'll never be is a long one
even if you do live forever.
Brent Weeks
#37. One of the things I've always felt," Steve told me, "is that if you're going to be creative, it's like jumping up in the air; you want to make damn sure the ground is going to be there when you get back.
Brent Schlender
#38. Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.
Charles Brent
#39. Pixar's Ed Catmull likes to say that since you can't control the luck itself, which is bound to come your way for better and for worse, what matters is your state of preparedness to deal with it.
Brent Schlender
#40. What's your nickname?"
"BC."
She frowns, trying to figure it out. "Because your middle name is Charles?"
I shake my head and tell her with the straightest face, "Big Cock.
Emma Chase
#41. I'm not dreaming this, am I?" he asked.
Dehvi lifted an eyebrow. "There's only one way to know for sure," he said.
What's that?"
Go piss in the woods. If you feel wet and warm afterward, wake up.
Brent Weeks
#42. When you know a man's secrets, you have power over him. A man's secret is his weakness. Every man has a weakness, no matter ...
Brent Weeks
#43. It was quite a collection of people: Hindus and Buddhists, rockers and doctors, all accomplished, all gathered in the United Church of Christ's Garden of Allah.
Brent Schlender
#44. If reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith ... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
Brent Weeks
#45. There's a hope that empowers, and a hope that enfeebles. Don't confuse them.
Brent Weeks
#46. To realize in an instant that you aren't going to have the life you'd hoped for, but not waste a moment complaining, instead acting instantly to save what good you can? That's more guts than I'd have had.
Brent Weeks
#47. A man's face is the surface of a pond, reflecting the sky, reflecting the trees, reflecting whatever is the object of his gaze and his love, the reflection hiding his depths. But when the wave passes, in the swell, for an instant, you can see what lies beneath the waters.
Brent Weeks
#48. Hey look, Yara, there's someone driving the car."
"Ha, ha," Cherie grumbled. "You two haven't come up
for air since we picked Yara up from the airport."
"Circle the block," Brent instructed. "I'm not done
kissing her yet.
Lani Woodland
#49. I'm definitely a character actor. I've tried to limit anything with a uniform because I've done it so much. There's a lot more I can offer. It's just getting people to see something else.
Brent Sexton
#50. after an old girlfriend failed to solder a few chips correctly, he made her the team's bookkeeper.
Brent Schlender
#51. You're all trying to figure out what went wrong inside my head. Fucking idiots. You'll never crack the code that's inside my head. You'll never get into my castle. You'll never even get past the gate.
Brent Runyon
#52. A whore's truth has too many sharp edges.
Brent Weeks
#53. 'The Black Prism' is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words, it's a story of normal brothers - who happen to be in extraordinary circumstances.
Brent Weeks
#54. I warned him, Kylar. She was a lovely, careless girl. The kind of woman born without a heart, so she couldn't imagine breaking anyone else's.
Brent Weeks
#55. There's a reason theory and practice are two different words.
Brent Weeks
#56. King: "You're ... you're shit! You shitting, shitting shit!"
"Your Majesty," Durzo said gravely. "A man of your stature's cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears.
Brent Weeks
#57. There's a divinity that shapes beauty from our rough hewn lives.
Brent Weeks
#58. Steve's life wasn't a movie. It was inspiring, confounding, and unabashedly human, to the very end.
Brent Schlender
#59. Everyone thinks they're special. It's what makes lying so easy.
Brent Weeks
#60. So what does that make you think about God?
I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.
Brent Runyon
#61. So my motto would be, 'Be careful,'cause there's always someone ready to step into your shoes ... and do your job better ... than you ... do it.
David Brent
#62. A job is a job, it isn't done till it's done.
Brent Weeks
#63. See, you've got to understand, son. There's two types of guys in this world. There's guys . . . who think they're in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.
Brent Jones
#64. An oath you only keep when it's convenient isn't an oath at all.
Brent Weeks
#65. Just when a man makes a decision that everything he's believed his whole life is a lie, something comes along tempting him to believe again.
Brent Weeks
#66. Is that all your life is?" Kylar asked, finally looking up. "Tests and challenges?"
"My life? That's all life is.
Brent Weeks
#67. Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
Brent Weeks
#68. Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It's living well that I couldn't do. What's death compared to that.
Brent Weeks
#69. I leaned against Brent, resting my forehead against his cheek, but jerked back. "Brent you're hot."
Brent grinned lazily and puffed up his chest. "Thank you. It's a burden I must bear.
Lani Woodland
#70. To hold fealty to your own and to call it a high virtue is ludicrous. Even animals protect their own. It is a good, but it is a common good, an easy one. It's a miser who says he grows rich not for himself, but for his children. His vice is not thus magically made virtue.
Brent Weeks
#71. When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.
Brent Weeks
#72. The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.
Charles Brent
#73. He didn't make me pay all that I owed, but maybe I had to be willing to pay the full price. That's how repentance is different from regret.
Brent Weeks
#74. There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that ... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.
Brent Weeks
#75. Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
Brent Scowcroft
#76. And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
Brent Spiner
#77. We have suicide bombers blowing up buses in Israel and very real anti-Semitism on the march in Europe, but the TV networks located the worldwide danger zone for Jews as the space between Mel Gibson's ears.
L. Brent Bozell Jr.
#78. I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.
Brent Weeks
#79. Better oblivion chosen of his own will than torture forever according to his brother's.
Brent Weeks
#80. Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one's mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.
Brent Green
#81. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.
Brent Schlender
#82. Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.
Brent Scowcroft
#83. Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
Brent Scowcroft
#84. You can't understand a God who's all mercy and no justice. That cute, fuzzy God wouldn't last two minutes in the Warrens, would he?
Brent Weeks
#85. Lynn looks up at him to see if he's serious. "What?" he asks her. "If anybody is gonna put Carter's head through the wall, it should be me."
EJ's eyes snap open, and he scoots away from me slowly. I'll remember this, Wingman!
Brent Crawford
#86. What's the point in looking back," he told me in one email. "I'd rather
Brent Schlender
#87. What's the hardest part of being a teacher?" "Well, they basically have no filter. Whatever pops into their head comes right out of their mouths." "Sounds like Brent," he commented drily.
Tessa Bailey
#88. Or perhaps it's the wickedness in him that she can't resist. There are such women.
Madeleine Brent
#89. There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.
Brent Iverson
#90. You can only feel love to the extent in which you love yourself. If you deficiently love yourself, you will never believe that another person could truly love you. If you overly love yourself, no one's love will be good enough, and the world will seem pale and cold.
Michael Brent Jones
#91. I think it's really important to bring your own personality to the space you're in.
Jeremiah Brent
#92. As someone who never followed rules, as someone who did everything she could to avoid them, I was done living by Marin's law. I needed Brent now. I would have him back. And soon.
Abigail Baker
#93. **A Dedication from Brent Weeks to his older Brother**
For Kevin, because it's a big brother's job to make a little brother tough. What you taught me, I've needed. (But I never have been right since that dirt clod incident.)
Brent Weeks
#94. That's the thing. If you're prepared to get shit on and do your work anyway, sometimes you get lucky.
Brent Weeks
#95. Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.
Brent Weeks
#96. Count Drake had told him that life was precious, that suicide was a coward's way out, a sin against the God by flinging his gift back in his holy face.
Brent Weeks
#97. We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms.
Brent Scowcroft
#98. After years of knowing her, a woman's beauty shouldn't be able to reach straight into a man's chest and squeeze the breath out of him. Especially not when he could never have her.
Brent Weeks
#99. Your Majesty," Durzo said gravely. "A man of your stature's cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears." - Durzo Blint
Brent Weeks
#100. KATH: (Katherine) BRENT, daughter of Ed: Brent, dee'd., 300 acs. Northumberland Co., N.E. upon Quiough 421 Riv., S.E. upon land of Capt. Giles Brent. 9 Dec. 1662, p. 79, (554). (Capt. Gyles Brent, 4 May 1653, assigned to sd. Edm: Brent & by him given by will to sd. Kath.)
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