#wit

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#defined #disease #event #god #immensity

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#believe #change #himself #i #i believe

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#critic #every #history #last #literary

I always had an actor within me. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#always #had #i #i always #me

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#curse #knowledge #much #off #shut

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#believed #conscience #friends #guilt #hated

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#being #god #hero #own #religion

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#i #myself #really #want #within

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#athletic #been #college #go #i

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean. ↗

— Alton Brown

#battles #cause #dirty #dish #fast