Brickbat Priority Quotes

#1. Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Joseph Joubert

#2. To get a doctorate, you need only have a modicum of intelligence and the ability to grind it out. I'm afraid you may only be qualified to be an academic, not a pastor. Ministry is a lot harder than scholarship.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#3. Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It's not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes. You only need to move fashion forward when there's a reason to move fashion forward.

Tom Ford

#4. It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word intuition.

Isaac Asimov

#5. 20Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight.

Anonymous

#6. They're having a clam-bake. They're baking my clams.
They're baking the clams pried from my steaming pond.

Mark Levine

#7. Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park; an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

John Green

#8. You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

Tony Robbins

#9. Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.

Eduardo Paes

#10. It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. He was about as stupid as an animal could be and still live.

Roy Chapman Andrews

#12. The flower replied: You fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, and not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossoming.

Irvin D. Yalom