Top 100 Brought To Quotes
#1. Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?
Fannie Lou Hamer
#2. Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
Thomas Cole
#3. If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought to the physical world.
Bob Proctor
#4. What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object.
Henry Selick
#5. sight of the name on the screen. Anna. It grows when I read the text. This message is brought to you by the BCBS [Booty Call Broadcasting System]. If you are back in town, get your wet ass over here.
Kristen Callihan
#6. There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.
Neil Gaiman
#7. Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
John Donne
#8. Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.
Charles Spurgeon
#9. In Sparta , paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium to adorn the aedileship of [C. Visellius] Varro and [C. Licinius] Murena.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#10. New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period.
Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and
in your pants.
Libba Bray
#11. Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving a sacrament. It is being brought to our knees by the conviction of God the Holy Spirit.
R.C. Sproul
#12. 'Twould be easy to say 'tis a gift, but 'twould also be an untruth. Beauty and compliments are always to be found in the truth, when not maliciously brought to light.
Sam Knight
#13. Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.
Charles Taze Russell
#16. I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence and honor for the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things, whether on earth or in heaven, have been brought to peace and reconciled with Almighty God
Francis Of Assisi
#17. No, she must stop thinking. That's how she could be brought to sanity.
Paulo Coelho
#18. A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single branch; and each ending seems to us an expression of something that is buried deep within the tale and can be brought to light in that way and no other.
Steven Millhauser
#19. People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#20. Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.
Deborah Day
#21. A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.
David Graeber
#22. David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.
Lord George Gordon
#23. Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.
Patricia Hampl
#24. The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
Patrick Kavanagh
#25. Her future will have been brought to a sad end if it is not incessantly, daily decorated.
Diane Williams
#26. Experience taught then and teaches now that blacks should never underestimate the level of violence that could be brought to bear against them by white authority, and that they should never overestimate the prospects for receiving understanding and support from white people.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#27. Oh, I wanted this killer stopped, brought to justice, yes, certainly - but did it have to be so soon?
Jeff Lindsay
#28. Hadn't one of my all-time favorite reveries been to become a cranky hermit, live unperturbed in my house, and have things brought to me like a monarch or tribal lord?
Laurie Notaro
#29. Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.
Bruno Schulz
#30. I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility.
David Brooks
#31. If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.
William Gibson
#32. Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.
Dorothy Parker
#33. When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
William Wells Brown
#34. Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!
Widad Akrawi
#35. The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.
Adolf Hitler
#36. Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
George Whitefield
#37. They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
Anthony Trollope
#38. Take account of yourselves before you are brought to account.
Umar
#40. The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways
through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.
Kenneth Kaunda
#41. A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness, and at least temporary affability, on being absolutely cornered, and brought to the point of personal intercourse; like the angel whom Jacob wrestled with, she is ready to bless you when once overcome.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#42. The room was so unearthly quiet, I lost all sense of time being divided into seconds. I felt that I was the only person alive and moving in a world brought to a stop.
Banana Yoshimoto
#43. The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
Robert Baden-Powell
#44. I think the people here in New York appreciated what I brought to the table, and they showed it when I retired by the way they came out and supported me, and it meant a lot to me. It made me feel like I am a part of this city, and I will remain a part of this city.
Patrick Ewing
#45. [She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore.
Virginia Woolf
#46. Lady Stark was there beside his bed. She had been there, day and night, for close on a fortnight. Not for a moment had she left Bran's side. She had her meals brought to her there, and chamber pots as well, and a small hard bed to sleep on, though it was said she had scarcely slept at all.
George R R Martin
#47. Begin to do what speaks to the passionate kid within you and makes you laugh so hard your belly hurts. Rediscover the things that move you and bring tears to your eyes - after all, the place where tears are brought to your eyes is the place where the universe wants you to be.
Robin S. Sharma
#48. What happens in the dark should not be brought to light.
Habeeb Akande
#49. It's been very clearly brought to my attention that I had overlooked your security in public restrooms.
R.K. Lilley
#50. In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.
Lauryn Hill
#51. ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.
Tom Brokaw
#52. I measure my success in life by the added value my presence brought to those whom I loved, and who loved me.
R.A. Salvatore
#53. I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
Rachel Nichols
#54. Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."
Lino Rulli
#55. I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.
Dorianne Laux
#56. He had to compose an "autobiography" that proved that he had been brought to his present predicament by a "lack of inner character," and moral perversity and mental sickness that had made him unre-ceptive to Communism. He
Dumitru Bacu
#57. I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.
Latrell Sprewell
#58. When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
William Gibson
#59. The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.
Tom Metzger
#60. Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.
Mark Twain
#61. How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.
Emoke B'Racz
#62. I learned a long time ago writing does soothe the soul. Our deepest feelings grasp our hands and as fast as you think of it your utmost feelings is in plain view. "A wisp of a thought brought to life.
Darlene Cruz
#63. He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." That good work begins in relationship to Jesus and is brought to completion within an ever-deepening union with him.
Timothy S. Lane
#64. You can't be close to the mortality of friends without being brought to think of your own.
Wallace Stegner
#65. Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.
Sam Shoemaker
#66. What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.
C. G. Jung
#67. To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.
Ann Veneman
#68. Sometimes we're brought to our knees. Literally. But, oh how we rise when we stand up. - Vicki Reece
Bryant McGill
#69. The (state of) vacancy should be brought to the utmost degree, and that of stillness guarded with unwearying vigour.
Lao-Tzu
#70. A full moon rose in the pale evening sky and glowed with a rich white inner light that brought to mind, but perfectly, the creamy inside of an Oreo cookie. (Eventually on the trail everything reminds you of food.)
Bill Bryson
#71. Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.
James Salter
#72. Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.
Victoria Aveyard
#73. What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
Jean Rostand
#74. The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
Benjamin Disraeli
#75. What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil.
Ruth Pitter
#76. Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
Bernard Ingham
#77. Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto.
Swami Vivekananda
#78. Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?
Aaron Spelling
#79. If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.
Horace Walpole
#80. I love every type of martial arts, but with Muay Thai in general, I want to see it being brought to the public more. There is no movie that has Muay Thai incorporated into it, so I want to bring that to the public.
Tony Jaa
#81. We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.
Watchman Nee
#82. All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#83. One sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention , the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to the solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women .
Henry George
#84. Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order
that windows, doors and other details have been knitted into a scheme that manages to be at once regular and intricate. (p184)
Alain De Botton
#85. I'm falling for you so hard that I can feel the scrapes on my knees as I'm brought to them. I understand you are scared because I'm absolutely terrified, but I'm not going to hurt you or kick you when you're down.
Ella Frank
#86. The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school.
William Gibson
#87. Therefore, the skillful commander imposes his will on the enemy by making the enemy come to him instead of being brought to the enemy.
Sun Tzu
#88. What with the pointing and the blue suit, she brought to mind a flight attendant. I expected her to tell me that in the event of an emergency, my brand-new Hecate blazer could be used as a flotation device.
Rachel Hawkins
#89. Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.
Bede Griffiths
#90. After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind.
Susanna Kearsley
#91. Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.
Angie-Marie Delsante
#92. God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
Shannon L. Alder
#93. Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.
Emilio Pucci
#94. The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#95. In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.
John Amery
#96. University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.
Doug LaMalfa
#97. That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.
Ellen Ochoa
#98. It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.
Paul Johnson
#99. She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside
John Connolly
#100. Brought to you by raising your voice. The next best thing to being right.
Demetri Martin
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