Top 20 Brownson Quotes
#1. There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.
Jill Scott
#2. Arin pulled her onto his lap. He held her shaking form, tucked his face into the crook of her cold neck as she sobbed against him. He murmured that he loved her more than he could say. He promised that he would always choose her first.
Marie Rutkoski
#3. This time you aren't escaping. It's time for a heart transplant.
Poppet
#4. Leukemia was a malignant proliferation of white cells in the blood. It was cancer in a molten, liquid form.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#5. He argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.
Susanna Clarke
#6. I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
Nancy Grace
#7. I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.
Orestes Brownson
#8. The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.
Janeane Garofalo
#9. The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.
Orestes Brownson
#10. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
W. Somerset Maugham
#13. Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.
Orestes Brownson
#14. If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.
Orestes Brownson
#15. The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.
Rachel Cohn
#16. She hesitated, aware that an ill-judged phrase might anger Triumvir Hegazi; not that she particularly cared. Dared she call it the Melding Plague, now that the Yellowstoners had given it a name? Perhaps that would be unwise.
Alastair Reynolds
#17. Usually guys with your skill set like to eat bugs; I don't get that dude.
Joe Teti
#18. In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.
Michel Houellebecq
#19. Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.
Pythagoras
#20. If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.
Orestes Brownson
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