Brett Anderson Quotes

#1. I know you think you believe you understand what you thought I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is exactly what I meant.

Richard M. Nixon

#2. Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

Christopher Paolini

#3. The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.

Masha Gessen

#4. Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Hannah More

#5. Race was an issue because in every assignment I have had in Special Operations, racism has been as much a part of the social bond as football and fast cars. I never cared for either of them either, but this was special.

Stan Goff

#6. When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

Gautama Buddha

#7. I don't like being alone. I haven't been alone since I got a boyfriend.

Molly Ringwald

#8. I certainly know German colleagues in the U.S. who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

Bernhard Schlink

#9. He knows everything.He's just so ridiculously well-read that it's ridiculous! You just sit there and you feel quite a worm in comparison.

Brett Anderson

#10. Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit -
It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Robert W. Service

#11. The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

Xavier Dolan

#12. Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur..

Guy Finley