Quotes of: Brave-new-world Keyword

Victor wrapped his fingers over my hand, pressing his face against my palm. “You’re the bravest girl I’ve ever met. I’m so incredibly proud of you.” “Who knew that one day the word someone would use to describe me is brave. Life is very u...

Valley of Darkness Part 1 & Part 2

I was into third guesses with Theo and Maddy. Anyway, that's one of the reasons I opted to buy the van and drive cross-country instead of dumping us all in a plane. It gave us some time. Nothing like a three-thousand-mile drive in an enclosed vehicle...

The Villa

Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to s...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stella explained that when he had arrived, because of his English accent, she had assumed that he was me, and had asked where his fridge was. She didn't tell me what his reply was, and we can only hazard a guess, but I was impressed that he had been ...

Round Ireland with a Fridge

That’s funny. You would think after being followed and shoved into a dark alley by a stranger, you would be at least a little shaken. Don’t tell me, you are a black belt just waiting for the perfect moment to strike.” He laughed soundlessly. �...

Nicole Rae

Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October ...

Christopher Hitchens

The day we met, frozen I held my breath. Right from the start, I knew that I found the home for my heart beats fast. Colors and promises. How to be brave? How can I love, when i'm afraid to fall. But watching you stand alone,all of my doubts, suddenl...

Christina Perri

How dare you! What is your name? I shall make it a sin to be spoken.” The braveness of his chuckle and grin made me step back. “Garrett. My name is Garrett and please make my name a sin to speak. Maybe that way I won’t have people like you scre...

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take a...

Betty MacDonald

Minstrel: [singing] He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin His head sm...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Ernst Blofeld: Siamese fighting fish, fascinating creatures. Brave but of the whole stupid. Yes they're stupid. Except for the occasional one such as we have here who lets the other two fight. While he waits. Waits until the survivor is so exhausted ...

From Russia with Love

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Cat's Cradle

Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.

The Cost of Discipleship

Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.

The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems

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

The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems

E poi ci sono quelli che credono che le vecchie relazioni possano essere rivissute e fatte nuove. Ma perfavore se ti senti in quel modo non chiamare non scrivere non arrivare...

Come On In!: New Poems

He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.

Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected

THIS IS A COMPLIMENT? You're incrediburgable she said which is to say You're a little like incredible but a lot more like a hamburger.

Charting New Waters

Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.

The Essentials of Life

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Embassytown

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Envy