Rita Mae Brown Famous Quotes
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides."
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
"For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself."
Rita Mae Brown Quotations
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves.
Euripides
"The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing."
Woodrow Wilson
"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."
John Masefield
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry Kissinger
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe."
Frank Rizzo
The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
Thomas Merton
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."
Marie Beyon Ray
"How come, just as the rocket is launching, the astronauts don't also shoot some fireworks out the window It would make the whole takeoff look more impressive."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."
Denis Watley