Shawshank Redemption Brooks Hatlen Quotes

#1. Love's a game where the odds are permanently fixed. The house always wins, and anyone stupid enough to sit at the table is lucky if they walk away with their soul intact.

Kathleen Peacock

#2. Black Jack. A common name for rogues and scoundrels in the eighteenth century. A staple of romantic fiction, the name conjured up charming highwaymen, dashing blades in plumed hats. The reality waled at my side.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. Not Hercules148 Could have knocked out his brains, for he had none:

William Shakespeare

#4. We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

Annalee Newitz

#5. What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

Jonathan Franzen

#6. Sometimes you may have to trade places with someone who is hurting.

Joel Osteen

#7. Trading old broken mirrors that feed lies into our souls for new mirrors of freedom requires choices.

Danielle Bernock

#8. A wedding is not house-keeping.

Victor Hugo

#9. Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart
More often than declared in speech.

William Kean Seymour

#10. Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

Paul Ryan