#ear

Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost. ↗

— Scott Brown

#congress #cost #focused #nearly #out

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#attack #be patient #because #cleverness #courage

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#foreign policy #job #know #learn #needs

I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#came #contract #ever #god #hurt

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#add #extra #friend #i #just

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#learn #more #painful #part #though

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#bush #common #crammed #earth #every

There is nothing these hands can hold worth having. They cannot hold the moonlight, or the melody of a song, or even the beauty of a woman. They can touch her face, but not her beauty. Only the heart can hold such things. ↗

— Adam Bagdasarian

#heart #inner-beauty #love #beauty

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#being #feeling #hand #living #me

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#books #changed #early #i #lot