Brent Quotes

I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.' ~ John Madden

Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life. ~ Brent Weeks

A whore's truth has too many sharp edges. ~ Brent Weeks

Because we do not understand all the circumstances surrounding someone's suicide, the level of the person's accountability, and the penalty that the Lord, in his infinite love and wisdom, may see fit to inflict upon the person, we must avoid judgment. Regardless of those circumstances and the Lord's divinely imposed punishment, followers of Christ are to be loving and compassionate to those who are hurt by the act of suicide. ~ Brent L. Top

Messy emotional issues could wait until later, or never. ~ Brent Weeks

A man who denies what is essential to his being is a man who drills holes in the cup of his own happiness. ~ Brent Weeks

Autobiography of a Yogi, a book that he would return to several ~ Brent Schlender

We all make choises,and then we bear the consequences for those. ~ Brent Weeks

Choose in haste and regret at leisure. ~ Brent Weeks

A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God. ~ Charles Brent

The last thing I need is for my dad to stroll in and see me abusing myself to lighting-fast pornographic images.Military school will become a reality faster than those people are doing it. ~ Brent Crawford

Collins, echoing Ed Catmull, "What separates people is the return on luck, what you do with it when you get it. What matters is how you play the hand you're dealt." He continues, "You don't leave the game, until it's not your choice. Steve Jobs had great luck at arriving at the birth of an industry. Then he had bad luck in getting booted out. But Steve played whatever hand he was dealt to the best of his ability. Sometimes you create the hand, by giving yourself challenges that will make you stronger, where you don't even know what's next. That's the beauty of the story. Steve's almost like the Tom Hanks character in Castaway - just keep breathing because you don't know what the tide will bring in tomorrow. ~ Brent Schlender

Not only is Cinderella Castle the symbol of the Magic Kingdom, it is also the most photographed item by amateur photographers in the entire world. ~ Brent Dodge

So, Yara brings Brent home to meet her parents, and he ends up in the E.R. ~ Lani Woodland

We so easily convince ourselves that what is good for me is also good for others. ~ Brent Weeks

My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room. ~ Jeremiah Brent

It smells like old whore in here. ~ Brent Weeks

It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too. ~ Brent Weeks

To Steve, these stores were pulling off something he had never been able to manage: they sold a lifestyle product at an absurdly high margin by presenting it in a beautiful and yet informative way. ~ Brent Schlender

A man's face is the surface of a pond, reflecting the sky, reflecting the trees, reflecting whatever is the object of his gaze and his love, the reflection hiding his depths. But when the wave passes, in the swell, for an instant, you can see what lies beneath the waters. ~ Brent Weeks

When we discover the secret of being inwardly at worship while outwardly at work, we find that the soul's silence brings us to God and God to us. Silence takes us beyond the limits of consciousness and into the heart and mind and will of God. ~ J. Brent Bill

This is ... beautiful, Brent. Thank you."
"That smile is all the thanks I need. ~ Emma Chase

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness. ~ Brent Weeks

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business. ~ Brent Spiner

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more. ~ Brent Scowcroft

We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body. ~ Brent Smith

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It's living well that I couldn't do. What's death compared to that. ~ Brent Weeks

Now you speak with the insight I'd expect from a woman. Which is to say none. ~ Brent Weeks

Pixar's Ed Catmull likes to say that since you can't control the luck itself, which is bound to come your way for better and for worse, what matters is your state of preparedness to deal with it. ~ Brent Schlender

Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken. ~ Brent Weeks

who probably didn't know any better; to Louise Simonson & Brent Eric Anderson, for "God Loves, Man Kills"; to Eleanor Wood, for reasons that need no explanation; to Betsy Mitchell, for having faith; and Steve Saffel, for keeping both book ~ Chris Claremont

Life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to do. ~ Brent Weeks

We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them. ~ John Grisham

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. "Have you ever done this before?"
"Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much. ~ Brent Weeks

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow. ~ Alexander Theroux

I'm probably sterile. At least I can stop worrying about getting girls pregnant (if I ever get to have sex with them). Do you still get horny if your nuts are broken? My eyes open, and I find Andre standing over me, saying, "I felt your nads through my helmet!" I stop writhing for a second to give him props. "That's gold, dude! ~ Brent Crawford

It's important to pull tons of pieces! If you have lots of options to choose from, you can play around and see that things that you wouldn't originally have expected to work together actually do! That applies to both clothing and decorating. ~ Jeremiah Brent

All power is a test. ~ Brent Weeks

Don't judge a man by what he says his ideals are, judge him by what he does. Look at what the Color Prince has done. They're wrong, Teia. They're liars and murderers. It doesn't mean everything we do is right. It doesn't mean our house doesn't need a thorough cleaning. I just don't think we need to burn it to the ground to do it. ~ Brent Weeks

If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried. ~ David Brent

It was William Penn who said, "Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." Brent knew that there was nothing right about this place and the way the prisoners were treated, and he was determined to do whatever he could to change that. ~ Kenneth Eade

Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job. ~ Brent Spiner

Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray. ~ Charles Brent

When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football. ~ Brent Musburger

The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it alone will He find room to dwell. ~ Charles Brent

[T]here's a good reason to stay pessimistic about deficits as far as the eye can see. It's called the 'news' media. Legislators who want to get re-elected will clearly want to avoid any spending decision that will create bad national publicity, and our news media, the manufacturers of bad national publicity, will send crying victims down the assembly line at the slightest thought of a social spending cut or freeze. Exhibit A is Sen. Jim Bunning. ~ L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

You can't understand a God who's all mercy and no justice. That cute, fuzzy God wouldn't last two minutes in the Warrens, would he? ~ Brent Weeks

Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it. ~ Charles Brent

Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge? ~ Brent Weeks

Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering. ~ Brent Green

Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary. ~ Brent Weeks

I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative. ~ L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read. ~ Brent Runyon

You have the maturity of a 14-year-old boy!" Kennedy hisses.
"And you have the chest of one. ~ Emma Chase

Are you?" I said. "Gay, I mean?"
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I hoped he wasn't offended by my asking, but after everything that had happened, I really wanted to know.
"No," he said. "I thought I was for about a w-w-week once. But now I know I'm not."
If there was ever an answer that sounded like the truth, that was it. ~ Brent Hartinger

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks. ~ Brent Scowcroft

See, you've got to understand, son. There's two types of guys in this world. There's guys . . . who think they're in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is. ~ Brent Jones

I stopped at a red light, turned my head, and allowed myself to enjoy the handsomeness that was Brent.
He noticed my staring and asked, "What?"
"As if you don't know. You're not the type of guy that a girl gets tired of looking at."
"Oh. Well in that case, you're welcome to look all you want," he said and gestured to himself. "You're allowed to touch, too." He wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.
I lowered my voice into its sexy-husky range. "I was hoping you'd say that." With my flirtiest look on my face, I rubbed my hand slowly up his arm and then pinched him firmly on the shoulder.
"Ow!" Brent rubbed his shoulder and grinned. "Not what I had in mind! ~ Lani Woodland

I don't read fiction at all. ~ Brent Spiner

Every time I open my mouth to say what I'm feeling, something stops me and I have to make sure I'm not going to say anything stupid. It makes me crazy. And then, once I've figured out what I'm going to say, I have to go over it, over and over again, just to see if what I'm feeling is right. And then I have to figure out how to say it. ~ Brent Runyon

There's a reason theory and practice are two different words. ~ Brent Weeks

We're finished, God. From now on, you answer your own fucking prayers. ~ Brent Weeks

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show. ~ Brent Spiner

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not. ~ Brent Scowcroft

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. ~ Brent Scowcroft

So what does that make you think about God?
I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls. ~ Brent Runyon

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently. ~ Brent Weeks

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body. ~ Brent Weeks

That's what life was like. Implications and half-complete expressions, undefined expectations, ever unsure what exactly was needed, or what, in fact, was happening. ~ Brent Hayward

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss. ~ Brent Weeks

After years of knowing her, a woman's beauty shouldn't be able to reach straight into a man's chest and squeeze the breath out of him. Especially not when he could never have her. ~ Brent Weeks

So I think when you tap into something that you really want to do, you have to fight for it, even if the fight is with yourself. ~ Brent Crawford

Ohhh, OH no you didn't!" he screams. "Nobody touches the TERRY!" Then he starts punching himself in he face. This kid really is crazy! I may not even have to fight him. He's doing it for me, and I'm winning! ~ Brent Crawford

Having a good belief system in yourself is so important for success and can help you in many ways. First thing a belief system accomplishes is that it builds your self-esteem. Knowledge ~ Brent R

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless. ~ Brent Weeks

I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma. ~ Brent Spiner

I could not have written this book the way I wanted to without the insight of one such friend, Brent Dempsey. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being so generous with your time and for helping me get it right. I solemnly swear to never again use the words stakeout or perp. ~ Julie James

Carter: "Dude, I don't know why it works, it just does. [...] Just pretend you're not into 'em and then ask a question. What's the worst that could happen?"

EJ makes eye contact with the smallest one, off to the side. [...]
She looks up at EJ and gives him the nicest smile. He pulls the trigger and yells, "You think you're hot stuff, don't you?"

What the...? Where are you going with this?

"Excuse me?" she replies, kind of sweetly.
EJ asks, "You think you're cool, don't you? Where did you get that shirt, the Salvation Army? What the hell is with your hair?

My eyes are as big as basketballs as he fires one mean-ass question after another at her.

"You don't have a boyfriend, do you?" he continues.

It's like he's armed with self-esteem killer.

"Did your parents have any kids that lived?" EJ asks.

The girls starts to buckle, and tears are on the way.

"Are these your friends, or are they like, counselors here to observe you?" EJ shouts. [...]

He asks, "Does your grandma know you borrowed her shoes?" as I drag him away. The girl is crying pretty hard, and her friends are trying to console her. [...]

"Man, that didn't do very well. What do you think I did wrong?" EJ asks.
"Are you serious?" I ask
"I was just doing what you told me to," he replies.
"I-I-I told you to go up to that girl and start abusing her?" I ask.
"You said to ask her ~ Brent Crawford

Growing old with the woman I love would be my first choice, but dying reconciled with her isn't a bad second. ~ Brent Weeks

Steve embraced the marketing adage that every single moment a consumer encounters a brand - whether as a buyer, a user, a store visitor, a passerby seeing a billboard, or someone simply watching an ad on TV - is an experience that adds either credits or debits to the brand's "account" in his imagination. ~ Brent Schlender

I'm just a wetboy. " "No, Kylar. I don't know what you are, but you're not just anything. ~ Brent Weeks

How did I dance with a guy who's never heard of feminism?"
"I've heard of it, but that doesn't mean a woman can do everything a man can do," he goaded. I went to smack him on the back of his head, but he ducked with a snicker."I'm learning," he informed me. "How did I ever consider dating such a violent girl?"
"We're both lucky we got out early before we really knew each other."
"Oh yes, good thing neither one of is still interested in the other," Brent said with a playful grin. ~ Lani Woodland

Alexas the blessed ... was a good kid." Durzo laughed. Then his smile faded. "Broke my heart to kill him. But he needed killing by the end. ~ Brent Weeks

I've taken lives, and I've taken my own life in my hands and trusted a friend with it. Yes, sir, I'd say that makes me a man."
"Neither makes you a man. The first makes you a killer. The second makes you a fool. Either may get you killed. ~ Brent Weeks

Ah, Chantal... Now I think I know how it feels to fly on a trapeze. ~ Madeleine Brent

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism. ~ Brent Scowcroft

Giving someone your life is easy. Giving someone your soul is a lot harder. ~ Brent Saltzman

Durzo pulled out a gold Gunder from his pouch. Crowns Roth wins, Castles I lose.
He flipped the coin. It bounced on the table and, impossibly, landed on edge.
There´s always another choice, Kylar said. ~ Brent Weeks

Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it. ~ Kenneth Eade

What I loved about working for Steve," says Cue, "is that you learned that you could accomplish the impossible. Again and again. ~ Brent Schlender

Steve wanted people to love Apple," says Cook, "not just work for Apple, but really love Apple, and really understand at a very deep level what Apple was about, about the values of the company. He didn't write them on the walls and make posters out of them anymore, but he wanted people to understand them. He wanted people to work for a greater cause. ~ Brent Schlender

Would you like me to tell you what I did last night when I got home?"
"No." She shivered. "Yes."
Brent chuckled quietly, but it came out sounding pained. "I took off my clothes and lay down on my stomach in bed. Then I wrapped your silk panties around my hand and fucked them. ~ Tessa Bailey

The perfect killer has no conscience. ~ Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no identity. ~ Brent Weeks

You'll fight. You'll die. And I'll miss you. ~ Brent Weeks

What happens when you strip away all the masks a man wears and you find not a face beneath them but nothing at all? ~ Brent Weeks

If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail. ~ David Brent

It wouldn't be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat. ~ Brent Weeks

Brent suddenly thought back to Miss Gill, the mediator in Chicago, and her saying the effects of an act traveled far beyond one's knowledge. He knew she'd meant harmful acts, like his. He saw now that the same could be said for good deeds-good, bad, and indifferent-sent a wave rolling out of sight. He wondered what his own accounting, generations later, would look like. ~ Paul Fleischman

You may have won, Cenaria was saying, but your victory is no triumph. You can force me from my home, but you will not live in it. I will leave you nothing but scorched earth. ~ Brent Weeks