Brickhouse Cafe Quotes

#1. When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.

Jackie Robinson

#2. Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man's tribute to unconquered nature.

H.G.Wells

#3. If you're injured in an automobile accident, and you sue the driver, you get much more for your injury than if you're fighting for your country. There's a double standard here.

Joseph Stiglitz

#4. [The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm ...

Charles Kingsley

#5. Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

Rumi

#6. The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

Lord Acton

#7. I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.

James Frey

#8. Meditation is neither a means to an end nor something to perfect. Meditation done correctly is an expression of Reality, not a path to it. Meditation done incorrectly is a perfect mirror of how you are resisting the present moment, judging it, or attaching to it.

Adyashanti