Top 100 Browne's Quotes
#1. MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:
WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING
RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.
R.J. Palacio
#2. Mr. Browne's precept for October was: YOUR DEEDS ARE YOUR MONUMENTS.
R.J. Palacio
#3. It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.
Harry Browne
#4. Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes ... Social Security operates on a very simple principle: the politicians take your money from you and squander it.
Harry Browne
#5. I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
Anthony Browne
#6. And when someone accuses you of being selfish, just remember that he's upset only because you aren't doing what he selfishly wants you to do.
Harry Browne
#7. How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?
Jackson Browne
#8. Suzanne Sugarbaker of Designing Women was so right when she said, "There's just nothing better in life than to ride around on the back of a convertible with a crown on your head." Words to live by.
Jill Conner Browne
#9. Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
Jackson Browne
#10. As with most situations in my life, Emery's dress was much harder to get out of than it had been to get into.
Hester Browne
#11. One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.
Anthony Browne
#12. He told me yesterday that weddings should be individual celebrations of a couple's relationship, ideally with just the bride and groom and a humanist minister. Everything else is merely social pressure to eat tiny cakes.
Hester Browne
#13. The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.
Lewis Browne
#14. But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.
Harry Browne
#15. Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.
Sylvia Browne
#16. If you've never woken up from a car accident to discover that your wife is dead and you're an animated, rotting corpse, then you probably wouldn't understand.
S.G. Browne
#17. Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon
Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom
Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page
And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age
Jackson Browne
#18. ... don't expect Nicky to provide some kind of happily ever after for you. Because it's not up to him, it's up to you.
Hester Browne
#19. I am surprised that Chicago - the Big-Shouldered City - is so trifling that they won't let you eat in a restaurant if it's on fire. Even if you already paid.
Jill Conner Browne
#20. They know they're supposed to do something, but they're not sure what. And you know what they do when they're not sure
of course you do: They either do the wrong thing or they do nothing, and it's a toss up as to which is worse.
Jill Conner Browne
#21. Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on.
Brian Browne Walker
#22. Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.
Jackson Browne
#23. It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.
Joy Browne
#24. We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
Jackson Browne
#25. The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.
Harry Browne
#26. Doing womenswear is challenging, and it's exciting. I approach it the same way as I approach menswear, so it's in a tailored way, and I do my thing. I love doing it.
Thom Browne
#27. No one ever talks about their feelings anyway
Without dressing them in dreams and laughter
I guess it's just too painful otherwise
Jackson Browne
#28. Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod
And where power and position are equated with the grace of God
These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast
From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
Jackson Browne
#29. When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.
Harry Browne
#30. Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.
Harry Browne
#31. One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he was a god or a superhero who could do anything. After that, I wrote my first positive book about fathers, about my dad.
Anthony Browne
#32. And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
Jackson Browne
#33. Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated.
Joy Browne
#34. How am I supposed to take it easy when all around me these creatures are in a perpetual state of ignorance? ...
S.G. Browne
#35. The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
Jackson Browne
#36. Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.
Jackson Browne
#37. So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
Jackson Browne
#38. Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.
Jackson Browne
#39. There is another man within me that's angry with me.
Thomas Browne
#41. Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
Thomas Browne
#42. The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Harry Browne
#43. The only difference about us in here and you guys out there is we're braver for about 15 minutes longer. That's it.
Travis Browne
#44. Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.
Anthony Browne
#45. I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone's dressed down. So actually, putting on a jacket is the anti-Establishment stance.
Thom Browne
#46. I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
Thomas Browne
#47. The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
Sylvia Browne
#48. It's cold enough to freeze the cliches off a Dan Browne novel. (Thought of that when working in the garden just after getting yet another 'thanks but no thanks'.)
Patsy Collins
#49. And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
Jackson Browne
#50. Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.
Jackson Browne
#51. Well, I'm a standing on a cornerIn Winslow, ArizonaAnd such a fine sight to see,It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed FordSlowin' down to have a look at me.
Jackson Browne
#52. Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
Anthony Browne
#53. There's a difference between compromising your independence and compromising yourself. Love's about giving up a little dependence, darling. But that doesn't mean you have to stop being you.
Hester Browne
#54. I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.
Jackson Browne
#55. Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.
Thomas Browne
#56. It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.
Jackson Browne
#57. Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don't wear sandals. With shorts, it's wing tips and tennis socks.
Thom Browne
#58. What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.
Sylvia Browne
#59. We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.
Joy Browne
#60. In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.
Harry Browne
#61. It's vitally important that you buy your own crown and declare yourself Queen, and then spend the rest of your life living into that.
Jill Conner Browne
#62. Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
Harry Browne
#63. I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.
Anthony Browne
#64. Nothing should be perfect. I think that's the most important thing. I do wear my jackets almost exaggeratedly short. So that's probably the most mussed up. Along with, you know, not ironing my shirt.
Thom Browne
#65. I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.
Anthony Browne
#66. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
Anthony Browne
#67. People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne
#68. Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is watching, after all. Don't want to hurt his feelings.) And if you don't like your life, CHANGE IT. It is all yours.
Jill Conner Browne
#69. Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
Harry Browne
#70. In this world, you have to fight to live. In this world, there's no easy way, there's the hard way, and the harder way.
Darby Browne
#71. He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
Thomas Browne
#72. When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.
Jackson Browne
#73. Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.
Des Browne
#74. It's sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that's really skinny.
Thom Browne
#75. It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.
Sylvia Browne
#76. I like the idea of men's tailoring on girls. It's very strong and sexy in a non-overt way.
Thom Browne
#77. See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.
Sylvia Browne
#78. Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.
William Browne
#79. Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and never lets up, taking you on a ride that leaves your heart pounding. It's almost impossible to put this book down. Dead of Night is an excellent read.
S.G. Browne
#80. Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.
Harry Browne
#81. It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.
Hester Browne
#82. The more directly individual rewards are tied to individual achievements, the greater incentive there is to increase one's individual effort. Joint Efforts
Harry Browne
#83. The truth of the matter is this: there's so much nobility lurking inside your souls. Our job as parents, and educators, and teachers, is to nurture it, to bring it out, and to let it shine. - Mr. Browne
R.J. Palacio
#84. The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
Harry Browne
#85. Your actions toward others are your bank deposit. It's easy to be good to nice people, but try to be caring to everyone. It is a test.
Sylvia Browne
#87. I think good tailoring and something that's well-made never gets boring or tiring.
Thom Browne
#88. Stress can make people say things they don't mean, though. That's why you have to relax.
Hester Browne
#89. You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
Jackson Browne
#90. The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is - it's got to be more government.
Harry Browne
#91. I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
Charles Farrar Browne
#92. A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.
Sylvia Browne
#93. Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.
Joy Browne
#94. You can't deny somebody that's a hard worker. You can't deny somebody that just digs down as deep as they can.
Travis Browne
#95. Men don't know enough about being courteous toward women. You should get into a cab before a woman so she doesn't have to slide across the seat. And you should always go first into a revolving door so she doesn't have to push - unless it's moving, then let her go first.
Thom Browne
#96. You know what's strange? A lot of men don't dream in color. Women will dream in color more than men.
Sylvia Browne
#97. Designing is so easy - it's the business that is hard. That's why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren - look at what he's done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded.
Thom Browne
#98. Daddy always pointed out, it should come as no surprises to anyone that merchants want to move their wares-it's sorta what they do, after all. But that's just BUSINESS and that has nothing to do with CHRISTMAS.
Jill Conner Browne
#99. Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Harry Browne
#100. I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
Jackson Browne
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