#ric

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#biography #like #many #men #rich

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned. ↗

— Xun Zi

#any #beautiful #born #desires #ears

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#because #bring #chance #comedy #does

I never would've thought in Homeland Security that you would see someone saying that we needed to have hearings on radicalization of Christianity because it's a purported threat to America as much as radicalization of Islam. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#because #christianity #hearings #homeland #homeland security

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#bible #books #carl #english #formed

Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured. ↗

— Alton Brown

#being #fascinating #ice #manufactured #me

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#build #empire #i #met #never

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#getting #i #motivation #now #spiritual

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#best #contributions #deal #deficit #economy

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#african #always #dispossessed #hands #lead