Gil Brandt Quotes

#1. Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Haruki Murakami

#2. What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

#3. They will find a fourth, and the battle between light and dark will be won. A new leader will rise from the shadows of his death, and the Clans will survive beyond the memories of his memories. This is how it has always been, and how it will always be.

Erin Hunter

#4. Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.

Frederick Lenz

#5. To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

Adam Smith

#6. Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.

Watchman Nee

#7. Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#8. There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

Rene Descartes

#9. for sale. Various glowing advertisements of it had appeared in the papers. Then came the first bald statement that it had been bought - by a Mr. Owen. After that the rumours of the gossip writers had

Agatha Christie

#10. I pause to catch my breath, looking around at all the toys he's paid for and never once enjoyed with his son.

Nicola Kraus

#11. Being a little kinder, a little slower to anger, a little more loving makes my life better - day by day.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#12. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. I realized that if I was going to assume the responsibility of writing about my home, I needed narrative ruthlessness. I couldn't dull the edges and fall in love with my characters and spare them. Life does not spare us.

Jesmyn Ward

#14. You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

Juliette Binoche