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180000 famous quotes part 21 – 20001 to 21000
20001. There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is. – Bill Bradley
20002. Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. – Bill Bradley
20003. When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. – Bill Bradley
20004. Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. – Bill Bradley
20005. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. – Bill Bradley
20006. The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important. – Ed Bradley
20007. I’d watch my father get up at 5 o’clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business. – Ed Bradley
20008. My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job. – Ed Bradley
20009. My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father. – Ed Bradley
20010. Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you’re raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me. – Ed Bradley
20011. So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I’d get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy. – Ed Bradley
20012. I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that’s who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News. – Ed Bradley
20013. The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month. – Ed Bradley
20014. Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things. – Ed Bradley
20015. Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience. – Ed Bradley
20016. There was no one around me who didn’t work hard. – Ed Bradley
20017. You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that’s what it comes back to. – Ed Bradley
20018. You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important. – Ed Bradley
20019. The only thing I’d ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. – Ed Bradley
20020. Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. – Ed Bradley
20021. That’s when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into. – Ed Bradley
20022. I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that’s something I learned at an early age. – Ed Bradley
20023. And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events. – Ed Bradley
20024. But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun. – Ed Bradley
20025. I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam. – Ed Bradley
20026. I did anything that would get me on the air. – Ed Bradley
20027. I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris. – Ed Bradley
20028. I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun. – Ed Bradley
20029. I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game. – Ed Bradley
20030. I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio. – Ed Bradley
20031. I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris. – Ed Bradley
20032. I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam. – Ed Bradley
20033. And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that. – Ed Bradley
20034. I taught sixth grade for three and a half years. – Ed Bradley
20035. The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind. – F. H. Bradley
20036. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. – F. H. Bradley
20037. The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. – F. H. Bradley
20038. There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. – F. H. Bradley
20039. There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. – F. H. Bradley
20040. We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. – F. H. Bradley
20041. The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. – F. H. Bradley
20042. Another occupation might have been better. – F. H. Bradley
20043. True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. – F. H. Bradley
20044. The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. – F. H. Bradley
20045. The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. – F. H. Bradley
20046. The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. – F. H. Bradley
20047. Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. – F. H. Bradley
20048. One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. – F. H. Bradley
20049. Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. – F. H. Bradley
20050. It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. – F. H. Bradley
20051. Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. – F. H. Bradley
20052. It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself. – F. H. Bradley
20053. Eclecticism – every truth is so true that any truth must be false. – F. H. Bradley
20054. I’m not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever. – Jeb Bradley
20055. I’ve been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20056. We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20057. The scandal’s so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20058. Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20059. On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20060. It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20061. I wasn’t a child at 13, were you? – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20062. I never thought that I was very intelligent. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20063. I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20064. He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20065. A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20066. A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20067. My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else. – Marion Zimmer Bradley
20068. But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true. – Milton Bradley
20069. I’m getting tired of answering the same questions every day. – Milton Bradley
20070. There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for. – Milton Bradley
20071. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. – Omar N. Bradley
20072. This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. – Omar N. Bradley
20073. With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. – Omar N. Bradley
20074. We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship. – Omar N. Bradley
20075. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. – Omar N. Bradley
20076. Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. – Omar N. Bradley
20077. Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. – Omar N. Bradley
20078. I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. – Omar N. Bradley
20079. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. – Omar N. Bradley
20080. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. – Omar N. Bradley
20081. Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. – Omar N. Bradley
20082. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. – Omar N. Bradley
20083. Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. – Omar N. Bradley
20084. In a completely integrated unit where you’d have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers… I think you would have a problem definitely. – Omar N. Bradley
20085. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. – Omar N. Bradley
20086. It’s okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers – they help us to learn. – John Bradshaw
20087. Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. – John Bradshaw
20088. Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight. – John Bradshaw
20089. It’s essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life’s pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. – John Bradshaw
20090. You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. – John Bradshaw
20091. You’ve got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win. – Terry Bradshaw
20092. After three failed marriages, I know what it’s like to be replaced. So that’s kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today… A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he’s going to be a bust in Detroit. – Terry Bradshaw
20093. I just like to catch fish, I don’t care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can’t do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while. – Terry Bradshaw
20094. I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it’s not about me. It’s about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family. – Terry Bradshaw
20095. I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid. – Terry Bradshaw
20096. People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That’s how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes. – Terry Bradshaw
20097. What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. – Terry Bradshaw
20098. When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway. – Terry Bradshaw
20099. You can’t dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. – Terry Bradshaw
20100. As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy… there’s something about winning a Super Bowl. – Terry Bradshaw
20101. Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet
20102. If what I do prove well, it won’t advance. They’ll say it’s stolen, or else it was by chance. – Anne Bradstreet
20103. Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. – Anne Bradstreet
20104. Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. – Anne Bradstreet
20105. A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider. – Anne Bradstreet
20106. The words walked right out of my mouth. – James Brady
20107. For target shooting, that’s okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that’s why we have police departments. – James Brady
20108. One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else. – James Brady
20109. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here. – James Brady
20110. There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it. – Kevin Brady
20111. No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life. – Mathew Brady
20112. I had to go. A spirit in my feet said ‘Go,’ and I went. – Mathew Brady
20113. Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers. – Matthew Brady
20114. A spirit in my feet said go, and I went. – Matthew Brady
20115. We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines. – Robert A. Brady
20116. We are talking about predictable recurring flooding. – Robert A. Brady
20117. They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice. – Robert A. Brady
20118. I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country. – Robert A. Brady
20119. More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone. – Robert Brady
20120. Three quarters of the East Coast’s refinery capability is located in the Philadelphia region. – Robert Brady
20121. Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one. – Robert Brady
20122. These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders. – Robert Brady
20123. There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy. – Robert Brady
20124. One in 5 Americans is touched by the Red Cross every single year. – Robert Brady
20125. Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay. – Robert Brady
20126. Mr. Speaker, Delaware River’s regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. – Robert Brady
20127. Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl’s Center for Philadelphia. – Robert Brady
20128. Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic. – Robert Brady
20129. Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it. – Robert Brady
20130. I don’t believe gun owners have rights. – Sarah Brady
20131. I’ve thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous. – Sarah Brady
20132. Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn’t matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed. – Sarah Brady
20133. The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I’m just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough. – Sarah Brady
20134. Unless they’re a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we’re not against them buying guns at all. – Sarah Brady
20135. We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it’s a public health issue, a safety issue. – Sarah Brady
20136. We must get rid of all the guns. – Sarah Brady
20137. We’re going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily. – Sarah Brady
20138. The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. – Sarah Brady
20139. I could talk food all day. I love good food. – Tom Brady
20140. WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks. – Tom Brady
20141. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts. – Tom Brady
20142. My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years. – Tom Brady
20143. I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped. – Tom Brady
20144. A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart. – Tom Brady
20145. Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. – Tom Brady
20146. Cancelled isn’t a bad word because it happens everyday. – Wayne Brady
20147. I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot. – Wayne Brady
20148. Theatre sports is the best improv training period. – Wayne Brady
20149. The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother’s or the father’s work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it. – Eric Braeden
20150. Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids. – Eric Braeden
20151. Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period. – Eric Braeden
20152. I’m not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don’t care what anyone says. – Eric Braeden
20153. If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day. – Eric Braeden
20154. If it’s really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick. – Eric Braeden
20155. If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good. – Eric Braeden
20156. If you’re a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough. – Eric Braeden
20157. I’m not a politician. – Eric Braeden
20158. My heart goes out to many women that I’ve met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That’s very understandable, but what do you do with the kids? – Eric Braeden
20159. Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married? – Eric Braeden
20160. It’s very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other. – Eric Braeden
20161. A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person. – Eric Braeden
20162. Being in love, and I’m not an expert in this, I’ve lived it as much as anyone has, but I’ve not dissected it. – Eric Braeden
20163. I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person. – Eric Braeden
20164. A mother’s got to be there to raise the children. That’s all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can’t do it all the time. – Eric Braeden
20165. I said, I’m on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don’t want to be known always as the silly “Scrubs” guy… So part of me was like, You know what? Life’s short. Let’s go for it. – Zach Braff
20166. The way I write is that I’ll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters. – Zach Braff
20167. That image is a couple different people’s homes that I knew growing up. – Zach Braff
20168. It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married – those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there’s like this extra 10 years of that angst. – Zach Braff
20169. I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn’t written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me. – Zach Braff
20170. I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium. – Zach Braff
20171. I didn’t necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real. – Zach Braff
20172. I am really driven, but my drive doesn’t effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities. – Zach Braff
20173. I’m by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I’ve seen it save a lot of people’s lives. – Zach Braff
20174. Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we’d get all that music. – Zach Braff
20175. Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven. – Zach Braff
20176. I always liked the story of Noah’s Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind. – Zach Braff
20177. If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me. – Sonia Braga
20178. You can keep yourself alive. That’s the magic of being an actor. – Sonia Braga
20179. And getting older, what’s happening is, I play only mothers. – Sonia Braga
20180. I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow. – Sonia Braga
20181. The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That’s all that I know. Everything else I don’t know. – Sonia Braga
20182. We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about. – Sonia Braga
20183. I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us. – Sonia Braga
20184. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. – Bobby Bragan
20185. Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. – Bobby Bragan
20186. Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers. – Billy Bragg
20187. We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. – Billy Bragg
20188. There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn’t seem to come with them. – Billy Bragg
20189. In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn’t understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. – Billy Bragg
20190. It’s not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don’t choose what to write about, I don’t choose my subjects, they kind of choose me. – Billy Bragg
20191. I’ve had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. – Billy Bragg
20192. I’m trying to make a case for those people who don’t have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history. – Billy Bragg
20193. The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you’re an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level. – Billy Bragg
20194. I’m still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I’m much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that’s because they’ve moved, not me. – Billy Bragg
20195. I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren’t very political, at all. – Billy Bragg
20196. I try and write honestly about what I see around me now. – Billy Bragg
20197. I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it’s me who has to come up with all the ideas. – Billy Bragg
20198. All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans. – Billy Bragg
20199. My theory is this; I’m not a political songwriter. I’m an honest songwriter. – Billy Bragg
20200. I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash. – Billy Bragg
20201. My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. – Billy Bragg
20202. Most of the people that I went to school with – I went to secondary school – we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford’s, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else. – Billy Bragg
20203. That taught me one lesson which is that you’re naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really. – Billy Bragg
20204. All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. – Billy Bragg
20205. An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone. – Billy Bragg
20206. Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had. – Billy Bragg
20207. But, in the end, even a song that’s as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn’t get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan’s love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now. – Billy Bragg
20208. By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero. – Billy Bragg
20209. Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. – Billy Bragg
20210. So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time. – Billy Bragg
20211. Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination. – Tycho Brahe
20212. When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky. – Tycho Brahe
20213. It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus. – Tycho Brahe
20214. I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor… but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world. – Tycho Brahe
20215. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland. – Tycho Brahe
20216. But you’ve got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20217. The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20218. The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20219. Somebody was asking me the other day – President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that’s great. I was talking about that fifty years ago. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20220. So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20221. Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20222. Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20223. People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20224. It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20225. In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20226. In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don’t know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20227. If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20228. However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan’s neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20229. The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20230. But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20231. But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20232. Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20233. At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20234. Afghanistan is a land-locked country. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20235. A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20236. You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you’ve shown up. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20237. When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don’t go with prescriptions. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20238. To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20239. What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it’s never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you’ve missed something. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20240. Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20241. There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20242. I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20243. There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20244. There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20245. There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20246. There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It’s not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20247. There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20248. Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It’s not a failing state that you want to help. It’s a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded. – Lakhdar Brahimi
20249. We cling nervously to the melody, but we don’t handle it freely, we don’t really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. – Johannes Brahms
20250. Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. – Johannes Brahms
20251. Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. – Johannes Brahms
20252. Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind’s eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. – Johannes Brahms
20253. If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. – Johannes Brahms
20254. I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. – Johannes Brahms
20255. Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. – Johannes Brahms
20256. A symphony is no joke. – Johannes Brahms
20257. It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. – Johannes Brahms
20258. Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. – John Braine
20259. Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. – David Brainerd
20260. I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God. – David Brainerd
20261. The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. – David Brainerd
20262. Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace. – David Brainerd
20263. The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. – David Brainerd
20264. We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. – David Brainerd
20265. We should always look upon ourselves as God’s servants, placed in God’s world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. – David Brainerd
20266. Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. – David Brainerd
20267. I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. – David Brainerd
20268. Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. – David Brainerd
20269. When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. – David Brainerd
20270. My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach. – David Brainerd
20271. A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. – David Brainerd
20272. Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time. – David Brainerd
20273. Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. – David Brainerd
20274. As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. – David Brainerd
20275. I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was. – David Brainerd
20276. First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. – David Brainerd
20277. I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I. – David Brainerd
20278. I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now. – David Brainerd
20279. If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. – David Brainerd
20280. I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects. – David Brainerd
20281. I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English. – David Brainerd
20282. As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further. – David Brainerd
20283. There are a lot of movies made for nobody. – Stan Brakhage
20284. The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. – Stan Brakhage
20285. We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. ‘I am’ is the closest foundation we can get. – Stan Brakhage
20286. No one is out to get you. It’s just that… people are monkeys. – Stan Brakhage
20287. Art is a sense of magic. – Stan Brakhage
20288. I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to. – Stan Brakhage
20289. Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps. – Ernest Bramah
20290. A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment. – Ernest Bramah
20291. Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. – Ernest Bramah
20292. He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit. – Ernest Bramah
20293. In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don’t understand. – Kenneth Branagh
20294. If you’ve done a brilliant version it becomes something else. – Kenneth Branagh
20295. If it’s good art, it’s good. – Kenneth Branagh
20296. I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. – Kenneth Branagh
20297. I think A Midsummer Night’s Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element. – Kenneth Branagh
20298. I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it – who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary. – Kenneth Branagh
20299. Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. – Kenneth Branagh
20300. I don’t think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. – Kenneth Branagh
20301. My definition of success is control. – Kenneth Branagh
20302. I don’t know that there is too far, actually. I think there’s only too bad. If it’s bad you’ve gone too far. – Kenneth Branagh
20303. Actors are the best and the worst of people. They’re like kids. When they’re good, they’re very very good. When they’re bad they’re very very naughty. – Kenneth Branagh
20304. I do think that, for instance, we’ve been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos. – Kenneth Branagh
20305. I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it. – Kenneth Branagh
20306. I like to cast actors I admire, one’s that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar. – Kenneth Branagh
20307. The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. – Kenneth Branagh
20308. We’re self obsessed and mad and stupid – not that other people can’t be the same way – but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them. – Kenneth Branagh
20309. There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them. – Kenneth Branagh
20310. The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors. – Kenneth Branagh
20311. It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel to. – Kenneth Branagh
20312. The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers. – Kenneth Branagh
20313. It’s quite hard for people to just accept that they’re very contradictory. – Kenneth Branagh
20314. The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There’s still some silliness. – Kenneth Branagh
20315. So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. – Kenneth Branagh
20316. One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare’s characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. – Kenneth Branagh
20317. Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves. – Kenneth Branagh
20318. I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet. – Kenneth Branagh
20319. I put myself into character for my songs. – Michelle Branch
20320. I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that. – Michelle Branch
20321. I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn’t exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips. – Michelle Branch
20322. I’m lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad. – Michelle Branch
20323. I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I’d know that I tried. – Michelle Branch
20324. Architecture is inhabited sculpture. – Constantin Brancusi
20325. To see far is one thing, going there is another. – Constantin Brancusi
20326. What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things… it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. – Constantin Brancusi
20327. When you see a fish you don’t think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water… If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. – Constantin Brancusi
20328. Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. – Constantin Brancusi
20329. Don’t look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. – Constantin Brancusi
20330. They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. – Constantin Brancusi
20331. Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them. – Constantin Brancusi
20332. Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things. – Constantin Brancusi
20333. There hasn’t been any art yet. Art is just beginning. – Constantin Brancusi
20334. Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. – Constantin Brancusi
20335. I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning – though I never really intended it to be – was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly. – Jo Brand
20336. So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I’ve had two children recently. – Jo Brand
20337. I don’t know really, it doesn’t feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978. – Jo Brand
20338. I think there’s a far more general audience now because I’ve done more populist stuff on telly. – Jo Brand
20339. I don’t know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I’ve known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn’t met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh. – Jo Brand
20340. I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn’t turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did. – Jo Brand
20341. I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there’s none of that hopefully. – Jo Brand
20342. With two small children, I haven’t had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get. – Jo Brand
20343. Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders – not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female. – Jo Brand
20344. What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don’t have any news on that. It’s already been on Paramount actually, but as it’s on Paramount it’ll probably be on several more times… hopefully. – Jo Brand
20345. The thing I thought about doing it was it’s Comic Relief and you’ve got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can’t sing. – Jo Brand
20346. Again, with two small children it’s incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you’re just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on. – Jo Brand
20347. So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully – which I didn’t at the beginning. – Jo Brand
20348. I just don’t like travelling very much. – Jo Brand
20349. I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that. – Jo Brand
20350. By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it’s a bit of a copout. – Jo Brand
20351. The reason I used a name was because I was a nurse at the time, and I didn’t want my name in Timeout and people from working coming along and taking the piss. – Jo Brand
20352. Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate. – Jo Brand
20353. People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn’t. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare. – Jo Brand
20354. I wouldn’t say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean? – Jo Brand
20355. Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed ’cause the initial style you couldn’t watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me. – Jo Brand
20356. I’m sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people. – Jo Brand
20357. One of the guys that used to run it – for some reason I’ve no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that’ll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably. – Jo Brand
20358. It’s inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don’t just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done. – Jo Brand
20359. It’s got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up. – Jo Brand
20360. It’s a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren’t on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds. – Jo Brand
20361. Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God. – Russell Brand
20362. People have always said, are you gay? I’ve had a lot of that. But it’s just not in me. I really like women a lot; I’m repulsed by men sexually. – Russell Brand
20363. No-one really feels self-confident deep down becuase it’s an artifical idea. Really, people aren’t that worried about what you’re doing or what you’re saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persucted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. – Russell Brand
20364. It’s difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you. – Russell Brand
20365. It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing. – Russell Brand
20366. I’ll not be changing, but America will. – Russell Brand
20367. In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads. – Stewart Brand
20368. Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we’re discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn’t happen. – Stewart Brand
20369. Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. – Stewart Brand
20370. There’s no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It’s soon going to be more than that. – Stewart Brand
20371. When a fantasy turns you on, you’re obligated to God and nature to start doing it – right away. – Stewart Brand
20372. All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to – act as if it were impossible to fail. – Dorothea Brande
20373. Old habits are strong and jealous. – Dorothea Brande
20374. The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. – Dorothea Brande
20375. There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. – Dorothea Brande
20376. So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. – Dorthea Brande
20377. To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. – Dorthea Brande
20378. Man’s mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled. – Dorthea Brande
20379. By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment. – Dorthea Brande
20380. All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. – Dorthea Brande
20381. Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. – Dorthea Brande
20382. A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. – Dorthea Brande
20383. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. – Dorthea Brande
20384. There is no great writing, only great rewriting. – Justice Brandeis
20385. The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. – Louis D. Brandeis
20386. Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. – Louis D. Brandeis
20387. We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both. – Louis D. Brandeis
20388. We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. – Louis D. Brandeis
20389. To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. – Louis D. Brandeis
20390. There are no shortcuts in evolution. – Louis D. Brandeis
20391. The most important political office is that of the private citizen. – Louis D. Brandeis
20392. The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. – Louis D. Brandeis
20393. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. – Louis D. Brandeis
20394. Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. – Louis D. Brandeis
20395. Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. – Louis D. Brandeis
20396. Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. – Louis D. Brandeis
20397. Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis
20398. Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. – Louis D. Brandeis
20399. Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven’s wonders. – Louis D. Brandeis
20400. In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. – Louis D. Brandeis
20401. If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. – Louis D. Brandeis
20402. If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. – Louis D. Brandeis
20403. If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. – Louis D. Brandeis
20404. Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. – Louis D. Brandeis
20405. America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. – Louis D. Brandeis
20406. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. – Louis D. Brandeis
20407. I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. – Louis D. Brandeis
20408. The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. – Nathaniel Branden
20409. Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. – Nathaniel Branden
20410. There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. – Nathaniel Branden
20411. Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss. – Nathaniel Branden
20412. In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. – Nathaniel Branden
20413. A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him. – Nathaniel Branden
20414. Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. – Nathaniel Branden
20415. The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. – Georg Brandes
20416. It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. – Georg Brandes
20417. It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow. – Georg Brandes
20418. Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior. – Georg Brandes
20419. My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs. – Georg Brandes
20420. My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. – Georg Brandes
20421. On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. – Georg Brandes
20422. Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types. – Georg Brandes
20423. School is a foretaste of life. – Georg Brandes
20424. But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. – Georg Brandes
20425. That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. – Georg Brandes
20426. The person upon whom the schoolboys’ attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster. – Georg Brandes
20427. The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. – Georg Brandes
20428. The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them. – Georg Brandes
20429. When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance. – Georg Brandes
20430. I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light. – Georg Brandes
20431. I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small. – Georg Brandes
20432. Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school. – Georg Brandes
20433. But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both. – Georg Brandes
20434. A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. – Georg Brandes
20435. I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one’s feeling of honour. – Georg Brandes
20436. Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. – Georg Brandes
20437. Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me. – Georg Brandes
20438. Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. – Georg Brandes
20439. But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life – namely, Beauty. – Georg Brandes
20440. He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish. – Georg Brandes
20441. I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. – Georg Brandes
20442. I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer. – Georg Brandes
20443. I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry. – Georg Brandes
20444. I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values. – Georg Brandes
20445. I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. – Georg Brandes
20446. I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. – Georg Brandes
20447. I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself. – Georg Brandes
20448. Being gifted needs courage. – Georg Brandes
20449. I don’t like being told someone’s interpretation of something that I do. – Jonathan Brandis
20450. I like strong girls, as long as they don’t get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don’t have your day. – Jonathan Brandis
20451. I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I’m only a person. – Jonathan Brandis
20452. I think it’s all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given. – Jonathan Brandis
20453. It’s of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series. – Jonathan Brandis
20454. I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that. – Jonathan Brandis
20455. I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I’ve got on my cheeks. – Jonathan Brandis
20456. Allthough that doesn’t happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines. – Jonathan Brandis
20457. I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination. – Jonathan Brandis
20458. I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven’t done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer! – Jonathan Brandis
20459. I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school. – Jonathan Brandis
20460. I am the farthest thing from a computer genius. – Jonathan Brandis
20461. However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face! – Jonathan Brandis
20462. Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite. – Jonathan Brandis
20463. Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It’s a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself. – Jonathan Brandis
20464. And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future. – Jonathan Brandis
20465. As an actor you have one great fear: pimples! – Jonathan Brandis
20466. My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on. – Jonathan Brandis
20467. One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic. – Jonathan Brandis
20468. When you’re young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go! – Jonathan Brandis
20469. Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him. – Jonathan Brandis
20470. If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. – Marlon Brando
20471. With women, I’ve got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can’t get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. – Marlon Brando
20472. To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. – Marlon Brando
20473. There’s a line in the picture where he snarls, ‘Nobody tells me what to do.’ That’s exactly how I’ve felt all my life. – Marlon Brando
20474. The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them. – Marlon Brando
20475. The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money. – Marlon Brando
20476. Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite. – Marlon Brando
20477. Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. – Marlon Brando
20478. If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. – Marlon Brando
20479. I have eyes like those of a dead pig. – Marlon Brando
20480. I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money. – Marlon Brando
20481. An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening. – Marlon Brando
20482. An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. – Marlon Brando
20483. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It’s a bum’s life. Quitting acting, that’s the sign of maturity. – Marlon Brando
20484. If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It’s the ultimate hustle. – Marlon Brando
20485. It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. – Bill Brandt
20486. I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations. – Bill Brandt
20487. And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment. – Bill Brandt
20488. A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. – Bill Brandt
20489. It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual’s temperament and environment. – Bill Brandt
20490. Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. – Bill Brandt
20491. Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare. – Bill Brandt
20492. Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates. – Bill Brandt
20493. It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to keep it. – Willy Brandt
20494. I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. – Richard Branson
20495. The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world. – Richard Branson
20496. With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights. – Richard Branson
20497. Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath. – Richard Branson
20498. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. – Richard Branson
20499. I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are. – Richard Branson
20500. Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it. – Richard Branson
20501. Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested. – Richard Branson
20502. Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. – Richard Branson
20503. We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it. – Richard Branson
20504. We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep. – Richard Branson
20505. We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market. – Richard Branson
20506. We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone. – Richard Branson
20507. The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. – Richard Branson
20508. The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. – Richard Branson
20509. I don’t think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world. – Richard Branson
20510. So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on. – Richard Branson
20511. Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance. – Richard Branson
20512. Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway. – Richard Branson
20513. My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. – Richard Branson
20514. Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank. – Richard Branson
20515. Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid. – Richard Branson
20516. I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it. – Richard Branson
20517. I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. – Richard Branson
20518. I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. – Richard Branson
20519. I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life. – Richard Branson
20520. You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental. – Richard Branson
20521. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson
20522. And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on. – Richard Branson
20523. Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want. – Richard Branson
20524. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
20525. And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge. – Richard Branson
20526. We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress. – Joseph Brant
20527. Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King’s subjects have so much of our lands for so little value. – Joseph Brant
20528. The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people. – Joseph Brant
20529. Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions. – Hjalmar Branting
20530. We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence. – Hjalmar Branting
20531. We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support. – Hjalmar Branting
20532. There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations. – Hjalmar Branting
20533. All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers. – Hjalmar Branting
20534. The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. – Hjalmar Branting
20535. The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it. – Hjalmar Branting
20536. The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. – Hjalmar Branting
20537. No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations. – Hjalmar Branting
20538. I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there. – Hjalmar Branting
20539. Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature. – Hjalmar Branting
20540. But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression. – Hjalmar Branting
20541. Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war. – Hjalmar Branting
20542. At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas. – Hjalmar Branting
20543. As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself. – Hjalmar Branting
20544. And the annual meetings of the League’s Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. – Hjalmar Branting
20545. It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be. – Hjalmar Branting
20546. A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal. – Hjalmar Branting
20547. As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago? – Hjalmar Branting
20548. Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task. – Hjalmar Branting
20549. Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. – Georges Braque
20550. Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. – Georges Braque
20551. Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. – Georges Braque
20552. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. – Georges Braque
20553. To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. – Georges Braque
20554. Truth exists; only lies are invented. – Georges Braque
20555. Art is made to disturb, science reassures. – Georges Braque
20556. There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. – Chris Brasher
20557. I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open. – Benjamin Bratt
20558. The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don’t get to do in real life. – Benjamin Bratt
20559. I’m oftentimes called away from my family… it’s rather hard for me to be away from them. We’re very close. – Benjamin Bratt
20560. I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I’m most passionate about, pale by comparison. – Benjamin Bratt
20561. I don’t really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don’t have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training. – Benjamin Bratt
20562. I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I’m going to have more kids. – Benjamin Bratt
20563. As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I’m not working, you’d better spend that time with someone important. – Benjamin Bratt
20564. I’ve made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you’re bored. The boredom will show in your work. – Benjamin Bratt
20565. Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. – Fernand Braudel
20566. History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. – Fernand Braudel
20567. My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people – all people – has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today. – Andre Braugher
20568. If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. – Andre Braugher
20569. To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I’m going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he’s doing what he’s doing. It’s essential, it’s absolutely essential. – Andre Braugher
20570. They’re mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father. – Andre Braugher
20571. The only dangerous scene is when James Cromwell put a stake in my chest. But other than that, it turned out to be quite a punch. I didn’t think much of it. – Andre Braugher
20572. Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don’t have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It’s just a question of how many scenes you’ll be doing in the course of a day. – Andre braugher
20573. It was good to travel to the other side of the world. – Andre Braugher
20574. And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it’s not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead. – Andre Braugher
20575. I’m not a good enough singer to pull off the effect. – Andre Braugher
20576. I’m always a fan of a good horror film. – Andre Braugher
20577. So I think what you see in this show is it’s really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that’s where the differences lie. – Andre Braugher
20578. I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I’d worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with. – Andre Braugher
20579. I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could. – Andre Braugher
20580. For me the march was a labor – a labor of love – but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn’t standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy. – Andre Braugher
20581. Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there’s not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime. – Andre Braugher
20582. If the story’s interesting and it’s a compelling script, I’d be thrilled to be a part of it. – Andre Braugher
20583. But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I’d be working on. I want to make sure I don’t sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction. – Andre Braugher
20584. Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. – Robert Brault
20585. The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. – Robert Brault
20586. The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault
20587. I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. – Robert Brault
20588. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault
20589. Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. – Robert Brault
20590. Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. – Robert Brault
20591. There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level. – Carol Moseley Braun
20592. Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote. – Carol Moseley Braun
20593. Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible. – Carol Moseley Braun
20594. New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers – one from either party. – Carol Moseley Braun
20595. People just want to hear some common sense… and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government – I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee – not to mention the diplomatic international experience. – Carol Moseley Braun
20596. So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy. – Carol Moseley Braun
20597. The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot. – Carol Moseley Braun
20598. The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote. – Carol Moseley Braun
20599. The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it’s not that big of a country. Nobody, I don’t think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it. – Carol Moseley Braun
20600. Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that’s smaller than you and you beat them, where’s the honor in that? – Carol Moseley Braun
20601. The reason that minorities and women don’t have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected. – Carol Moseley Braun
20602. To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don’t tap people’s phones and poke into their e-mail and you don’t arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them. – Carol Moseley Braun
20603. We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs. – Carol Moseley Braun
20604. We’re failing our children with education, we’re failing our environment. – Carol Moseley Braun
20605. If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore. – Carol Moseley Braun
20606. I’m used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States. – Carol Moseley Braun
20607. The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. – Carol Moseley Braun
20608. I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people. – Carol Moseley Braun
20609. It’s not impossible for a woman – a Black woman – to become President. – Carol Moseley Braun
20610. I’m committed to universal health coverage and education. – Carol Moseley Braun
20611. Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. – Carol Moseley Braun
20612. I really think that’s the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow. – Carol Moseley Braun
20613. I think Americans want to believe in this country again. – Carol Moseley Braun
20614. I think if we are actually going to accept our generation’s responsibility, that’s going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents. – Carol Moseley Braun
20615. I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope. – Carol Moseley Braun
20616. I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don’t have to pay our bills. – Carol Moseley Braun
20617. I want people who believe in my message and where I am on issues to support me. – Carol Moseley Braun
20618. I want to rebuild America. – Carol Moseley Braun
20619. I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott. – Carol Moseley Braun
20620. I was very productive as a senator for my state. – Carol Moseley Braun
20621. I’d come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed. – Carol Moseley Braun
20622. All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I’d like them to say, Carol’s basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol’s kind of like Al Gore in a skirt. – Carol Moseley Braun
20623. I’m a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that. – Carol Moseley Braun
20624. I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates. – Carol Moseley Braun
20625. And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face. – Carol Moseley Braun
20626. He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven’t had a good word from him in three months? – Eva Braun
20627. Why doesn’t that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here. – Eva Braun
20628. When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once? – Eva Braun
20629. Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never – they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it. – Eva Braun
20630. There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn’t something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him! – Eva Braun
20631. Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann’s I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment. – Eva Braun
20632. I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. – Eva Braun
20633. I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy. – Eva Braun
20634. I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me. – Eva Braun
20635. God, I am afraid he won’t give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me – it is all so terribly depressing. – Eva Braun
20636. I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won’t be my fault if he ever stops loving me. – Eva Braun
20637. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. – Wernher von Braun
20638. It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. – Wernher von Braun
20639. Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing. – Wernher von Braun
20640. For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. – Wernher von Braun
20641. There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further. – Wernher von Braun
20642. I have learned to use the word “impossible” with the greatest caution. – Wernher von Braun
20643. All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. – Richard Brautigan
20644. I didn’t know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. – Richard Brautigan
20645. I don’t want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative. – Richard Brautigan
20646. I’ll think about things for thirty or forty years before I’ll write it. – Richard Brautigan
20647. I’m in a constant process of thinking about things. – Richard Brautigan
20648. It’s strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult. – Richard Brautigan
20649. Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there’s nothing there, how can anything go wrong? – Richard Brautigan
20650. Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. – Anthony Braxton
20651. So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home. – Anthony Braxton
20652. I would find myself backing away from all of the “isms,” all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected. – Anthony Braxton
20653. I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. – Anthony Braxton
20654. I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions. – Anthony Braxton
20655. Everybody in America is angry about something. – Anthony Braxton
20656. I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world. – Anthony Braxton
20657. The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I’m interested in, but actually, in some ways, it’s a limitation. – Anthony Braxton
20658. I know for works for me – those wonderful sad love songs. – Toni Braxton
20659. Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That’s why I do what I do. – Toni Braxton
20660. To do what you love can sometimes be stressful. – Toni Braxton
20661. If I’m uncomfortable, you’d never know. – Toni Braxton
20662. I’m not a diva. I’m a tadpole trying to be a frog. – Toni Braxton
20663. I’m a businesswoman who’s serious about her money. I want an empire. – Toni Braxton
20664. I’ll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same. – Toni Braxton
20665. I’d lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy. – Toni Braxton
20666. I take an active role in my imaging and how I look. – Toni Braxton
20667. I can’t record in the morning because I sound like Barry White. – Toni Braxton
20668. I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill. – Toni Braxton
20669. Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I’d pick my kids any day over any of it. – Toni Braxton
20670. You don’t want a whole bunch of yes people around you. – Toni Braxton
20671. I was a 10 million-plus selling artist. – Toni Braxton
20672. Like Scarlett O’Hara, I won’t be broke again. – Toni Braxton
20673. Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars. – Tim Bray
20674. A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one. – T. Berry Brazelton
20675. Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested. – T. Berry Brazelton
20676. Parents don’t make mistakes because they don’t care, but because they care so deeply. – T. Berry Brazelton
20677. No voters will be left behind. – Donna Brazile
20678. Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There’s something wrong with that. – Donna Brazile
20679. Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages. – Donna Brazile
20680. The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country. – Donna Brazile
20681. Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. – Donna Brazile
20682. Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress. – Donna Brazile
20683. If you’re not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you. – Donna Brazile
20684. I was motivated to be different in part because I was different. – Donna Brazile
20685. A campaign is about defining who you are – your vision and your opponent’s vision. – Donna Brazile
20686. Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough. – Donna Brazile
20687. We’re like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices. – Donna Brazile
20688. It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. – James H. Breasted
20689. There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. – James H. Breasted
20690. We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. – James H. Breasted
20691. Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. – James H. Breasted
20692. To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean. – James H. Breasted
20693. This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. – James H. Breasted
20694. There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. – James H. Breasted
20695. It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science. – James H. Breasted
20696. But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors. – James H. Breasted
20697. In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America. – James H. Breasted
20698. In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. – James H. Breasted
20699. Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. – James H. Breasted
20700. By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. – James H. Breasted
20701. The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. – James H. Breasted
20702. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. – Berke Breathed
20703. Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It’s the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children’s books. – Berke Breathed
20704. I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. – Berke Breathed
20705. I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. – Berke Breathed
20706. The comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it. – Berke Breathed
20707. Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. – Berkeley Breathed
20708. I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist. – Berkeley Breathed
20709. Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. – Berkeley Breathed
20710. Grace is available for each of us every day – our spiritual daily bread – but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20711. Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20712. The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20713. Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20714. The authentic self is the soul made visible. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20715. Let’s choose today to quench our thirst for the “good life” we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20716. Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20717. Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20718. An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20719. Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20720. Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
20721. Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can’t help us. – John Breaux
20722. Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together. – John Breaux
20723. When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it’s quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together. – John Breaux
20724. When people see the budget, they’re going to say, ‘Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn’t know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.’ – John Breaux
20725. Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser. – John Breaux
20726. There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority. – John Breaux
20727. My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property. – John Breaux
20728. It’s proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States. – John Breaux
20729. I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part. – John Breaux
20730. I needed to explain that Louisiana’s coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. – John Breaux
20731. I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America’s WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all. – John Breaux
20732. I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I’ll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of. – John Breaux
20733. But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again. – John Breaux
20734. But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana. – John Breaux
20735. Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance. – John Breaux
20736. And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene. – John Breaux
20737. I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better. – John Breaux
20738. We don’t suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved. – John Breaux
20739. I’ll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork. – Irving Brecher
20740. Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. – Bertolt Brecht
20741. People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. – Bertolt Brecht
20742. It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. – Bertolt Brecht
20743. It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead. – Bertolt Brecht
20744. Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. – Bertolt Brecht
20745. No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. – Bertolt Brecht
20746. No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself. – Bertolt Brecht
20747. One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life. – Bertolt Brecht
20748. Grub first, then ethics. – Bertolt Brecht
20749. People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. – Bertolt Brecht
20750. Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. – Bertolt Brecht
20751. He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. – Bertolt Brecht
20752. Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. – Bertolt Brecht
20753. Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. – Bertolt Brecht
20754. Don’t tell me peace has broken out. – Bertolt Brecht
20755. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. – Bertolt Brecht
20756. Everyone needs help from everyone. – Bertolt Brecht
20757. From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. – Bertolt Brecht
20758. Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. – Bertolt Brecht
20759. What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough. – Bertolt Brecht
20760. There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. – Bertolt Brecht
20761. Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse. – Bertolt Brecht
20762. Right is its own defense. – Bertolt Brecht
20763. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. – Bertolt Brecht
20764. Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science. – Bertolt Brecht
20765. Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. – Bertolt Brecht
20766. Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste. – Bertolt Brecht
20767. Temptation to behave is terrible. – Bertolt Brecht
20768. The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. – Bertolt Brecht
20769. The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves. – Bertolt Brecht
20770. What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? – Bertolt Brecht
20771. The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. – Bertolt Brecht
20772. You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured. – Bertolt Brecht
20773. To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. – Bertolt Brecht
20774. Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. – Bertolt Brecht
20775. War is like love; it always finds a way. – Bertolt Brecht
20776. What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? – Bertolt Brecht
20777. What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization. – Bertolt Brecht
20778. What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? – Bertolt Brecht
20779. Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong. – Bertolt Brecht
20780. Why be a man when you can be a success? – Bertolt Brecht
20781. The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. – Bertolt Brecht
20782. Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses. – Phil Bredesen
20783. When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it’s got legs. – Phil Bredesen
20784. If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero. – Phil Bredesen
20785. Our state’s strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target. – Phil Bredesen
20786. The consequences of decisions don’t just affect spreadsheets… They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death. – Phil Bredesen
20787. The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world. – Phil Bredesen
20788. The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds. – Phil Bredesen
20789. Let’s leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let’s take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count – on real results. – Phil Bredesen
20790. There’s only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that’s if we quit. – Craig Breedlove
20791. Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that’s disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don’t want to see that happen. – Drew Brees
20792. It’s my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That’s what I did. – Drew Brees
20793. I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me. – Arthur Bremer
20794. In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then. – Arthur Bremer
20795. It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. – Arthur Bremer
20796. Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. – Arthur Bremer
20797. Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it. – Paul Bremer
20798. There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it. – Paul Bremer
20799. While it’s very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there’s no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I’ve seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them. – Paul Bremer
20800. You know, the country is basically peaceful. – Paul Bremer
20801. We’ve thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq. – Paul Bremer
20802. We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We’re trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people. – Paul Bremer
20803. These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are. – Paul Bremer
20804. I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life. – Paul Bremer
20805. When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it. – Paul Bremer
20806. Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we’ve got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we’ll get the money. – Paul Bremer
20807. If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. – Paul Bremer
20808. I think what we’ve learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism. – Paul Bremer
20809. It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed – my job here will be done. – Paul Bremer
20810. Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble. – Paul Bremer
20811. I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty. – Paul Bremer
20812. I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. – Paul Bremer
20813. I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope. – Paul Bremer
20814. I hope they’re going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn’t going to work. They’re not going to change our life, they’re not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they’re not going to chase us out of the Middle East. – Paul Bremer
20815. I’m supposed to be the director of a television company, but I’ve only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen. – Rory Bremner
20816. I’m much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling. – Rory Bremner
20817. I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education. – Rory Bremner
20818. When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994. – Rory Bremner
20819. But let’s be clear. We’re talking about a country where there’s no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and – sorry that’s Tony Blair isn’t it? Um, so he doesn’t even have to ask the country before he goes to war – sorry that’s still Tony Blair. – Rory Bremner
20820. I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening. – Rory Bremner
20821. I’ve no idea what they make of me. People usually don’t recognise themselves in an impression. – Rory Bremner
20822. British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target. – Rory Bremner
20823. If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. – Rory Bremner
20824. When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there’s been this explosion. – Rory Bremner
20825. In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn’t be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian. – Rory Bremner
20826. It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road. – Rory Bremner
20827. My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift. – Rory Bremner
20828. Now I’m instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column. – Rory Bremner
20829. Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody. – Rory Bremner
20830. People may say that what I do is very clever, but it’s not really at all. It’s not Swift. – Rory Bremner
20831. I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It’s a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage. – Rory Bremner
20832. So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links. – Rory Bremner
20833. We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge. – Rory Bremner
20834. Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee. – Rory Bremner
20835. Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. – Gerald Brenan
20836. A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. – Gerald Brenan
20837. As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. – Gerald Brenan
20838. Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan
20839. If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms. – Gerald Brenan
20840. Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values. – Gerald Brenan
20841. Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. – Gerald Brenan
20842. The cliche is dead poetry. – Gerald Brenan
20843. Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. – Gerald Brenan
20844. We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan
20845. We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. – Gerald Brenan
20846. You generally hear that what a man doesn’t know doesn’t hurt him, but in business what a man doesn’t know does hurt. – Gerald Brenan
20847. Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. – Gerald Brenan
20848. In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan
20849. You need three or five hands to play Ligeti. – Alfred Brendel
20850. If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. – Alfred Brendel
20851. I will always have a stutter. – Nicholas Brendon
20852. It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world – the real world wasn’t so much fun. – Nicholas Brendon
20853. I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at. – Nicholas Brendon
20854. Actors are crazy or we wouldn’t be doing this. – Eileen Brennan
20855. If you’re old and you lose, they say you’re outmoded. If you’re young and you lose, they say you’re green. So don’t lose. – Terry Brennan
20856. What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. – Terry Brennan
20857. When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge. – Terry Brennan
20858. Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. – William J. Brennan
20859. If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion. – William J. Brennan
20860. Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it. – William J. Brennan
20861. Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. – William J. Brennan
20862. The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. – William J. Brennan
20863. We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. – William J. Brennan
20864. The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end. – William J. Brennan
20865. Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
20866. No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
20867. Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
20868. Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
20869. The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to “create” rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
20870. There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
20871. Use of a mentally ill person’s involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
20872. We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
20873. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
20874. Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress’s decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
20875. Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It’s simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show. – David Brenner
20876. When I go to a bar, I don’t go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine. – David Brenner
20877. We’re careful not to saturate people. – David Brenner
20878. Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn’t have a motor attached. – David Brenner
20879. Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful. – David Brenner
20880. A vegetarian is a person who won’t eat anything that can have children. – David Brenner
20881. I don’t like to watch golf on television because I can’t stand people who whisper. – David Brenner
20882. In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge. – Sydney Brenner
20883. There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. – Sydney Brenner
20884. The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable – it was the birth of molecular biology. – Sydney Brenner
20885. The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. – Sydney Brenner
20886. So that’s when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that’s when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental. – Sydney Brenner
20887. Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds. – Sydney Brenner
20888. Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one’s head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. – Sydney Brenner
20889. In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions. – Sydney Brenner
20890. I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code. – Sydney Brenner
20891. I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way. – Sydney Brenner
20892. I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries. – Sydney Brenner
20893. I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house. – Sydney Brenner
20894. He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953. – Sydney Brenner
20895. During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project. – Sydney Brenner
20896. I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very clearly was this small model with plates for the bases – the original model with everything screwed together. – Sydney Brenner
20897. An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing. – Franz Clemens Brentano
20898. Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. – Jimmy Breslin
20899. When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. – Jimmy Breslin
20900. Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. – Jimmy Breslin
20901. The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. – Jimmy Breslin
20902. The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. – Jimmy Breslin
20903. The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. – Jimmy Breslin
20904. Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. – Jimmy Breslin
20905. Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. – Jimmy Breslin
20906. Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. – Jimmy Breslin
20907. Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. – Jimmy Breslin
20908. Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. – Jimmy Breslin
20909. Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility. – Jimmy Breslin
20910. Media, the plural of mediocrity. – Jimmy Breslin
20911. If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. – Jimmy Breslin
20912. I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I’d never take a job in a place where you couldn’t throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. – Jimmy Breslin
20913. In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. – Robert Bresson
20914. An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. – Robert Bresson
20915. Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. – Robert Bresson
20916. Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. – Robert Bresson
20917. Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body. – Robert Bresson
20918. My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. – Robert Bresson
20919. The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. – Robert Bresson
20920. When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration. – Robert Bresson
20921. Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. – Robert Bresson
20922. Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. – Andre Breton
20923. No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. – Andre Breton
20924. No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. – Andre Breton
20925. Words make love with one another. – Andre Breton
20926. What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find. – Andre Breton
20927. There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. – Andre Breton
20928. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well. – Andre Breton
20929. All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. – Andre Breton
20930. Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. – Andre Breton
20931. It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. – Andre Breton
20932. If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. – Andre Breton
20933. I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory. – Andre Breton
20934. Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. – Andre Breton
20935. Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. – Andre Breton
20936. Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. – Andre Breton
20937. Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. – Andre Breton
20938. I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse. – Nicholas Breton
20939. Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. – Nicholas Breton
20940. We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb. – Nicholas Breton
20941. I’ve only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story. – George Brett
20942. I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that. – George Brett
20943. If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors. – George Brett
20944. A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that. – George Brett
20945. If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. – George Brett
20946. I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner. – Jeremy Brett
20947. Villains are very, very boring to do. They’re so much easier than heroes. – Jeremy Brett
20948. One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I’m on is that I’m in public with people. It hasn’t been inclined… I don’t know – something to do with the death of my wife. It’s inclined to make me isolated. – Jeremy Brett
20949. I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much. – Jeremy Brett
20950. I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren’t, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I’ve been able to go on and do plays and films. – Jeremy Brett
20951. The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he’s described by Doyle as a man without a heart – all brain… and that’s very difficult to play, or even indicate. – Jeremy Brett
20952. I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to keep pushing in that direction. – Jan Brewer
20953. And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they’re not going to – if the feds aren’t going to do their job, well, then, I’m up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they’re not – they’re not enforcing the laws! – Jan Brewer
20954. I feel like directing is an innate talent. – Jordana Brewster
20955. I think escapism is really important. – Jordana Brewster
20956. I already have a production company called J Squared and we’re working on two projects. – Jordana Brewster
20957. I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you’re sheltered. – Jordana Brewster
20958. Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a… legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great. – Jordana Brewster
20959. I will not go on a blind date. – Jordana Brewster
20960. Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you’ve ever wanted to work with and admire. – Jordana Brewster
20961. In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o’clock. – William Brewster
20962. We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church. – William Brewster
20963. We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David. – William Brewster
20964. I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness. – William Brewster
20965. We all live in a televised goldfish bowl. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20966. There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20967. The newspaper fits the reader’s program while the listener must fit the broadcaster’s program. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20968. The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20969. Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20970. While the spoken word can travel faster, you can’t take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20971. It won’t make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20972. Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20973. If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite conscious. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20974. Maybe you are the “cool” generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20975. Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.
20976. We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other. – Stephen Breyer
20977. To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. – Stephen Breyer
20978. There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren’t loads of countries where they’re followed. – Stephen Breyer
20979. Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters – it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him. – Stephen Breyer
20980. You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts. – Stephen Breyer
20981. You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. – Stephen Breyer
20982. We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. – Stephen Breyer
20983. Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public. – Stephen Breyer
20984. Independence doesn’t mean you decide the way you want. – Stephen Breyer
20985. And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee. – Stephen Breyer
20986. And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think – what’s going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way? – Stephen Breyer
20987. At least there’s a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. – Stephen Breyer
20988. But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. – Stephen Breyer
20989. Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants. – Stephen Breyer
20990. I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there’s some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. – Stephen Breyer
20991. I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. – Stephen Breyer
20992. Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts. – Stephen Breyer
20993. It doesn’t help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. – Stephen Breyer
20994. It’s important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty. – Stephen Breyer
20995. Judges are appointed often through the political process. – Stephen Breyer
20996. Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. – Stephen Breyer
20997. People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost. – Stephen Breyer
20998. I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you’ll get another group of people doing it. – Stephen Breyer
20999. It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are. – Breyten Breytenbach
21000. Better still – your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. – Breyten Breytenbach