Spoiled Brat famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I've carried on, in that same tradition, with my kids. Aside from just his brilliance, in my estimation, I think he had one of the great imaginations of the 20th century. One of the reasons why the tradition carries on, all these years later, is because, as a parent, those are the books that you go to and pull off the shelf because they never stop delighting you.

  • Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.

  • I tried many, many times to run away while my little brother was asleep. But at those moments, I always ended up thinking this-- My brother has only me in this world. Vince wants only me and needs only me. However... when he is gone, will there really be anyone else who needs me? When I thought about that, it scared me. It truly scared me. Cowardly, I could do nothing but hold my brother's tiny body while hiding my ugly emotions.

  • Respond to your customer's dissatisfactions with precision and power.

  • The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

  • Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

  • I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

  • Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

  • We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.

  • If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?