Underbrush Quotes

#1. Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#2. The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

Charlie Pierce

#3. I stumbled through the dark underbrush again crying out as I plunged through a thick spiderweb. My arms frantically brushed away the clinging web as irrational fear made me batshit-crazy for a moment. Scared of a damn spider when a bloodthirsty demon was chasing me down. Ridiculous.

Jenn Bennett

#4. But moods pass; they are fickle things darting in and out of the underbrush of the conscious mind. This - whatever this is - is deeply entrenched: a permanent squatter looming dark and dangerous in the forefront of my brain.

Nenia Campbell

#5. Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

Marisha Pessl

#7. This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You've earned the right to grow.

Cheryl Strayed

#8. Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

Dick Morris

#9. There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.

Kangana Ranaut

#10. Some people are born with family, and others have to make family.

Samantha Young

#11. It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

Sergey Lavrov

#12. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

#13. The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

Brennan Manning

#14. Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing,

Michael Crichton

#15. I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.

Barbara Mertz

#16. I said. "But there are bibliophiles the world over it would reduce to tears of joy." No exaggeration. Harley's [book] collection's worth a million-six ...

Glen Duncan

#17. When Doctor Mandelet dined with the Pontelliers on Thursday he could discern in Mrs. Pontellier no trace of that morbid condition which her husband had reported to him. She was excited and in a manner radiant.

Kate Chopin

#18. Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#19. If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you." ~Mary Trickey

Elizabeth SaFleur

#20. We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience.

Ilchi Lee

#21. This used to be a mean monster until he got sick one winter with the flu & stayed in bed & watched too much Little House on the Prairie & now the littlest thing & he starts to cry.

Brian Andreas

#22. Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny.

Auliq Ice

#23. He whispered against my mouth. Wait for me, Aura.

Jeri Smith-Ready