Olympia Brown Quotes

#1. Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

Walter Wriston

#2. The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

Olympia Brown

#3. How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

Olympia Brown

#4. What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#5. Nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing ... and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows.

Stephen King

#6. Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Olympia Brown

#7. I'm pretty boring.

Abigail Breslin

#8. skintight layer of clothing that extends from my feet to my neck that's supposed to help improve my hypertrophic scarring. The Iron Maiden describes hypertrophic scarring as skin that exhibits the three Rs of being red,

Alan Russell

#9. I'm getting back to my old roots.

Tiger Woods

#10. Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.

Al Yankovic

#11. In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia ... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.

Olympia Brown

#12. Endless sorrow has fallen upon my heart.

Olympia Brown

#13. Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

George O. Wood

#14. Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!

Anne Frank

#15. Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#16. When I set up my first restaurant, I was so inspired by Wolfgang Puck, who is also based in L.A. and is now a good friend of mine, and the way he would engage with his customers and greet them personally.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#17. The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places
to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

Olympia Brown

#18. I'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple.

Steve McNair

#19. I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

Augusten Burroughs

#20. The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Olympia Brown

#21. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Olympia Brown

#22. It was odd, he thought... to be in love with a girl at once so musical and so heavily armed.

Adam Gopnik