Brunstein Who Commits Quotes

#1. The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you.

Wally Lamb

#2. It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Stephen Hawking

#3. You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. Frankly, if 'American Idol' was the way I'd have to audition as a singer, I'd be standing behind the counter in a 5&10 right now. I couldn't have done it that way.

Lesley Gore

#5. You can't always be like 'sunshine and roses'. I like a little bit of darkness.

Ladyhawke

#6. No writer can impose his own standards onto any other, nor claim to speak for the whole genre.

Mary Karr

#7. The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.

Mark Sagoff

#8. In certain company
Often the uninvited
We react
We transform one another

Michele L. Rivera

#9. Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Unknown

#10. The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Marsilio Ficino

#11. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.

Mike Binder

#12. The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat.

Theodore Roethke

#13. I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.

Daphne Gottlieb

#14. It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

Ann Romney

#15. The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.

Adrian Rogers