Haggit Brewster Quotes

#1. Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

Walter Raleigh

#2. The things that we love tell us what we are.

Thomas Aquinas

#3. I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move,

Zola Budd

#4. It is easy in retrospect to see why he'd want to go. There are two women who are furious at him. To make one happy, he must take the subway across town and arrive on her doorstep. To make the other happy, he must wear for some infinitely long period of time a hair shirt woven out of her own hair.

Jenny Offill

#5. Folk dress in all manner of finery and wonderful hats to go and watch the races, but only if it's horses doing the barreling that day. This, at least, is understandable, for horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse's tragedy that they can never properly wear one.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. After a while size means nothing. It gets back to whether you're making 100% rate of return on $10,000 or $100 million dollars. It doesn't make any difference.

Paul Tudor Jones

#7. My son asked for very little - a kickstand, with a motorcycle attached.

Milton Berle

#8. I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

Johnny Vegas

#9. sharing a strong, five-second greeting each day with your spouse can become a long-term blessing to your relationship. Your greeting should say, "You are priceless to me," rather

Alex Kendrick

#10. Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.

Craig Groeschel

#11. It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

Amartya Sen

#12. The Dean campaign had accidentally created a movement for a passionate few rather than a vote-getting operation.

Clay Shirky

#13. American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Katherine Dunn

#14. She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not every border was clear.

Lisa Scottoline

#15. I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.

Hugh Dalton