Top 100 Quotes About Brook
#1. I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
Jennifer Damiano
#2. All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, disillusion.
Sinclair Lewis
#3. Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.
Brook Tesla
#4. Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.
Sarah Helen Whitman
#5. You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?"
"Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your reputations are nothing but lies.
Meljean Brook
#6. Just as altruism tells an individual that however much he is sacrificing, his duty is to sacrifice more, the Progressives concluded that however much Americans were giving, morality required them to give more.
Yaron Brook
#7. It's one of the magical things about life, that when you hit a wall, you step back genuinely and humbly ... and the answers suddenly flow like a babbling brook.
Gregor Collins
#8. But what would interest you about the brook,
It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.
Robert Frost
#9. In fetid darkness still to live and run
And all for nothing it had ever done
Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water.
Robert Frost
#10. Perhaps drugging the woman he intended to fall in love with wasn't the accepted method of kindling a passionate romance, yet Archimedes considered it the most sensible way to proceed.
Meljean Brook
#11. In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.
Peter Brook
#12. They gaped as if they'd never seen a ridiculously handsome bleeding man in a turquoise waistcoat fall through a rubbish hole and then save himself with a grappling hook before. What DID they do for fun in New Eden?
Meljean Brook
#13. That was unbelievably presumptuous," she said in astonished wonder. "I should be furious. But it was so well done. I have shivers all over.
Meljean Brook
#15. His slow smile didn't soften his hawkish features. You'll come to my bed. And you won't think it a waste of time.
Meljean Brook
#16. When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.
Meljean Brook
#17. Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.
Peter Brook
#18. The first time he'd laid eyes on Renee's sister he'd been hooked. Hooked on her scent. The sound of her voice. Her prickly demeanor. Oh how he loved that she could be so bitchy. She was a woman who would brook no bullshit, though he had the feeling she hadn't always been so.
Lauren Dane
#20. Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy.
Timothy Brook
#21. Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.
John Keble
#22. Trees don't sneak on you.
-Brook Where Small Fish Swim
Erin Hunter
#23. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving
Kahlil Gibran
#24. A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
Joseph Lancaster
#25. While they read and talked together, there was opened before them the great book wherein God has written, in the language of mountain, and tree, and sky, and flower, and brook, the things that make truly wise those who pause to read.
Harold Bell Wright
#26. Electing love has selected some of the worst to be made the best. Pebbles of the brook grace turns into jewels for the crown-royal.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever ... But the fact that Helen Mirren can look so good in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women. When I think about [women like her] I instantly stop worrying.
Kelly Brook
#28. I have the thickest skin of anyone you'll ever meet. No one can say anything about me I haven't heard a million times before.
Kelly Brook
#29. Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.
Rhidian Brook
#30. One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.
Brook Benton
#31. Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.
Stefanie Brook Trout
#32. But then there's her eyes and they look at you and don't brook no arguments, don't look like they ever doubt themselves, even when they should. Maybe they're the eyes of a giant after all.
Patrick Ness
#34. In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).
Daniel Brook
#35. I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.
Kelly Brook
#36. In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.
Khalil Gibran
#37. In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued my close collaboration with Charles Gilbert on the circuitry of primary visual cortex.
Torsten Wiesel
#38. It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.
Peter Brook
#39. Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
Lord Byron
#40. I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.
Kelly Brook
#41. Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.
Meljean Brook
#42. Place the tip of a stick in a clear brook and you'll see it "bend" underwater because the speed of light is literally slower beneath the surface than it is in air.
David Blatner
#43. Even worse than not being noticed, he decided, was being noticed and found wanting.
Meljean Brook
#44. We will continue to march, even if everything shatters, because today Germany hears us, and tomorrow, the whole world. And because of the Great War, the world lies in ruins, but devil may care, we build it up again.
Rhidian Brook
#45. O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#46. Fame is a jealous mistress
And will brook no rival.
Thiruvalluvar
#47. It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.
Yaron Brook
#48. I went, and knelt, and scooped my hand
As if to drink, into the brook,
And a faint figure seemed to stand
Above me, with the bygone look.
Thomas Hardy
#49. Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.
Yaron Brook
#50. I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life.
Kelly Brook
#51. I'll kiss you until we can't breathe. I'll strip you naked and taste every inch of you. Then I'll shag you until neither of us can see straight.
Meljean Brook
#52. To the extent America abandons Israel, it abandons itself.
Yaron Brook
#53. Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#54. From the very first, I knew you'd be dangerous to me. I should have run."
"I'd have caught you.
Meljean Brook
#55. Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do.
Yaron Brook
#56. When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.
W.S. Gilbert
#57. You could turn to others for help, but you couldn't claim their help by right.
Yaron Brook
#58. She studied his clothes, his top hat. "And you've just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?"
"It's much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don't fall in line, you'll leave them to die.
Meljean Brook
#59. She was only the faint violet whiff and dead leaf echo of the nymphet I had rolled myself upon with such cries in the past; an echo on the brink of a russet ravine, with a far wood under a white sky, and brown leaves choking the brook, and one last cricket in the crisp weeds.
Vladimir Nabokov
#60. The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.
Alexander Hamilton
#61. Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.
Deb Caletti
#62. Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world.
Hal Borland
#63. Genuine rights don't conflict - they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.
Yaron Brook
#64. I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.
Kelly Brook
#65. I was overcome by the simplicity of the brook and abandoned my envy and desire for bravery, and simply prayed: Lord, give me the quietness of the waters of this little brook and like it I will amalgamate myself in thee!
Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco
#67. This a sacred rule we find
Among the nicest of mankind,
(Which never might exception brook
From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,)
To doubt of facts, however true,
Unless they know the causes too.
Charles Churchill
#68. He expelled a long breath, smiled slightly as if in memory. I heard them in their room. She said she was a bit tired, and he said that perhaps it was time to see what came next.
Meljean Brook
#70. Reality' is a word with many meanings.
Peter Brook
#71. I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.
Kelly Brook
#72. In the quarantine tower he'd done to her what he'd sworn never to do with the machine: justify the route he'd taken with the result he hoped to achieve.
Meljean Brook
#73. The "called" get so puffed up with how important they think their service is to God's success, they assume God will compensate for their lack of parenting skills. A short study in sociological history will reveal this isn't true, never has been true, and likely never will be true of God.
Linda Rios Brook
#74. The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
Peter Brook
#75. The US economy today is in really bad shape. Our economic growth is minimal, our regulatory burden is horrific, taxes are high, businessmen are not investing in growth, and consumers and government are loaded up with debt.
Yaron Brook
#76. O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
John Milton
#77. I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong.
Peter Hargreaves
#78. I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.
Ed Weeks
#79. A jagged stone existed where her heart had been.
Meljean Brook
#81. I must endeavor to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.
Jane Austen
#82. And while we are living, we receive no punishment but what we put on each other or that we make for ourselves
Meljean Brook
#83. People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
Kelly Brook
#84. Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#86. But there exists not one man who never errs. We would be gods. And gods didn't apologize. Men did.
Meljean Brook
#87. What does a river know about this and what does a tree know?
And I, who am no more than those, what do I know?
Every time I look at things and think about what men think about them,
I laugh like how a brook sounds cool on a stone.
Fernando Pessoa
#88. Two things that lived separately and yet together: a brook and the sky, the wind and the water that coursed through both their veins. You needed both to sail. You needed both in tandem to achieve perfection.
Katy Regnery
#89. GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked ...
William Shakespeare
#90. She'd been a silly girl who'd dreamed of love, and a stupid girl who'd declared love a fraud; but she'd never imagined that when she found it,it would be richer, more powerful than dreams, and the impossibility of keeping it more painful than the worst betrayal.
Meljean Brook
#91. Like billowing clouds,
Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,
The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
Hildegard Von Bingen
#92. His mother had taught him exactly that: To do what must be done. But she had taught him to do it while having a heart. Not heartlessly.
Meljean Brook
#93. But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage of a woman should be a basic part of any man's character, and lauding him for it would be like commending someone for having lungs to breathe with.
Meljean Brook
#94. I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.
Kelly Brook
#95. You drive me wild, Brook. I don't know if I can control myself around you much longer.
Kitty Berry
#96. Her parents exchanged an odd glance. Her mother's lips curved. "Yes, I imagine that he possesses a rather large cannon," she said, spearing her
sausage with a fork.
Meljean Brook
#97. By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.
Opal Whiteley
#98. Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
John Milton
#99. Families aren't always blood. You make your own.
Meljean Brook
#100. Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.
John Webster
