Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

You can only be brave by being afraid. Embrace what you are scared of and shift its energy to destroy your fears.

Joe Maddon

Maybe tweeting is a more appealing method of getting your thoughts out to the masses a little bit more often. That's the only way I consider it. Otherwise, I do it for the fans' purposes; it's definitely not to try to empty my brain out to anybody else.

Gustav Mahler

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

John Dryden

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

John Dryden

None but the brave deserve the fair.

John Dryden

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

John Dryden

Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.

John Major

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

Rabindranath Tagore

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Rabindranath Tagore

Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.

Piper Perabo

I don't want to brag, but I'm a pretty good driver.

Kobe Bryant

My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Peter Straub

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

Peter James

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Tan Le

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

Tania Raymonde

You have to be brave and good things will come to you. I

Swami Vivekananda

Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe. I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the Jnâni, the brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed, it was all a hallucination. He sees the universe tumble down. Where was it! Where has it gone!

Swami Vivekananda

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

Rupert Everett

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

Rumi

Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.

Tupac Shakur

Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.

Tori Amos

If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that.

Vance Havner

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Robert Musil

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

Richard Dawkins

Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know.

Richard Dawkins

Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.

Richelle Mead

It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.