Dechristopher Brothers Quotes

We need actions that are really coming from people's souls. ~ Tim DeChristopher

Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight. ~ Tim DeChristopher

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power. ~ Tim DeChristopher

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool. ~ Tim DeChristopher

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment. ~ Tim DeChristopher

Our security doesn't come from turning away from the hard stuff; it comes from the knowledge that we can handle it. ~ Tim DeChristopher

Civil disobedience is an act of love. ~ Tim DeChristopher

I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it's about the people. ~ Tim DeChristopher

Dealing with our negative emotions is a crucial preparatory step to taking effective action. You have to grapple with the hard stuff, with the hard realities of the world. This builds your confidence that you can handle those intense situations when they arise. ~ Tim DeChristopher

The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice. ~ Tim DeChristopher

Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence. If people who engage in violence want to escalate their tactics, they would escalate to nonviolence. ~ Tim DeChristopher

What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution. ~ Tim DeChristopher

If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don't make any substantial change. ~ Tim DeChristopher

Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings. ~ Tim DeChristopher

If we're constantly suppressing our strong, heavy emotions - like fear and anger and outrage and sadness - it weakens us. But when we're not afraid to confront the hard emotions - when we don't turn away from the pain and the suffering of the world - it builds the confidence that we can do whatever we need to do. ~ Tim DeChristopher

A message of consolation to Greek brothers in their prison camps, and to my Haitian brothers and Nicaraguan brothers and Dominican brothers and South African brothers and Spanish brothers and to my brothers in South Vietnam, all in their prison camps: You are in the free world! ~ E.L. Doctorow

Spirituality has to play an important role, particularly in resistance movements. The institutions we are fighting against - corporations and governments - use alienation as one of their primary weapons. A big part of their messaging is intended to make people feel separated from each other, which disempowers them, which makes them ever easier to exploit. This is really a spiritual weapon they are using. It isolates people and breaks their spirit. ~ Tim DeChristopher

We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance. ~ Rick Yancey

We are angels just like the rest of our brothers and sisters. ~ Jay Woodman

It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many different directions over time, and the mainstream view today certainly doesn't have any exclusive ownership of what being a Christian means. Realizing that freed me to use the terminology without needing to be tied down to it. ~ Tim DeChristopher

I often say to entrepreneurs, 'If Lehman Brothers were Lehman Brothers & Sisters, it wouldn't have gone into bankruptcy.' ~ Shinzo Abe

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers. ~ Tony Hale

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers. ~ Henry Paulson

We are the Carillo Boys. Three brothers born into chaos and pain. Three brothers who'd endured tragedy and loss. Brothers until the end, bound by blood, our bond unbreakable by unconditional love. ~ Tillie Cole

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant. ~ Jacki Weaver

I thought of making you and Julian real brothers.
What is she talking about? Does she expect us to do a ritual thing like cut ourselves and rub blood together so we're blood brothers? ~ Simone Elkeles

Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different. ~ Muhammad Ali

Oooh, sneaky, I thought. Must be how normal mothers operate instead of yelling. ~ Marilee Brothers

In West Virginia, we've been extracting coal longer than anyone else. And after one hundred and fifty years of making other people rich, West Virginia is almost dead last among the states in per capita income, education rates and life expectancy. And it's not an anomaly. The areas with the richest fossil fuel resources, whether coal in West Virginia and Kentucky, or oil in Louisiana and Mississippi, are the areas with the lowest standards of living. In part, this is a necessity of the industry. The only way to convince someone to blow up their backyard or poison their water is to make sure they are so desperate that they have no other option. ~ Tim DeChristopher

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~ Joyce Brothers

Because brothers don't let each other wander in the dark alone ~ Jolene Perry

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers. ~ John Oates

Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period. ~ Josh Brolin

-Little brothers can be such a pain.
-Oh, really? Did you forget I have two older brothers?
-Sorry 'bout that.
-For what? Dissing little brothers?
-No, that you're probably a pain. ~ Karen DelleCava

Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers ... (Matthew 12:48) ~ Anonymous

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers. ~ Pope John Paul II

The best proof of love is trust ~ Joyce Brothers

The greatest happiness is family happiness. ~ Joyce Brothers

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America. ~ Jared Polis

Brothers must have the courage to share bread. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I grew up with brothers, and we would play-fight a lot. ~ Tracy Spiridakos

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words. ~ Joyce Brothers

[S]isters could do a great deal for their brothers, if they would. ~ Isabella MacDonald Alden

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. ~ Booker T. Washington

Decide what to be and go be it. ~ Avett Brothers

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along. ~ Joyce Brothers

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand. ~ Joyce Brothers

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling. ~ Joyce Brothers

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome. ~ Carroll O'Connor

My husband and I have never considered divorce ... murder sometimes, but never divorce. ~ Joyce Brothers

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers. ~ Ringo Starr

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. ~ Joyce Brothers

I used to wear my brothers' hand-me-downs, which were all too big on me. ~ Liam Hemsworth

You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl. ~ Kyra Sedgwick

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ~ Robert Burns

Chicken, breasts, boneless, skinless fillets, 2 to 3 lb 10-15 " " Chicken, drumsticks (legs) or thighs 10-15 ~ Joel Brothers

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project. ~ Sam Elliott

Everything inside me twisted in pain and relief. My brothers. I was in the same room as my brothers. ~ Katie McGarry

When you're younger, being a redhead is ... Well, my two brothers teased me no end. ~ Isla Fisher

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ~ Joyce Brothers

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur. ~ Robert Crandall

This crisis has the potential to be a lot worse than Lehman Brothers. ~ George Soros

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers. ~ Marlee Matlin

Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals. ~ Douglas Alexander

Lila!" he said cheerfully. "So you aren't a figment of my brothers imagination after all. ~ V.E Schwab

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters. ~ Richard Gere

There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood. ~ John Boyega

I worked with the Coen brothers, which had been a dream of mine. ~ Domhnall Gleeson

I've got 11 brothers and sisters. ~ John Boehner

If you change nothing, nothing changes. ~ Joyce Brothers

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant. ~ Joyce Brothers

I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune. ~ Joyce Brothers

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. ~ Joyce Brothers

We are not alone. We have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help. And we too, because of this, we feel more like brothers and sisters because we helped each other. ~ Pope Francis

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers. ~ John Oates

Keith Powell and Judah Friedlander are like brothers to me. ~ Katrina Bowden

Big sisters and brothers ... I am telling you, it never changes. ~ Janet Jackson

Merrill Krause - "My brothers have scared off just about any fellow who showed interest in getting to know me."
Granny Lassiter - "Well, if a man can't stand up to those brothers of yours, you needn't even consider him. A man ought to be able to hold his own with his wife's family. ~ Tracie Peterson

HBO churn out some unbelievable stuff. They really got me with things like 'Band of Brothers.' But you can't beat 'The Sopranos.' ~ Mark Lawrenson

Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly. ~ Joyce Brothers

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious. ~ Martin Freeman

Happiness hides in life's small details. If you're not looking, it becomes invisible. ~ Joyce Brothers

In football, you're like brothers. ~ Torrey Smith

'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters. ~ Patrick DeWitt

Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again. ~ Thomas R. Marshall

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school. ~ Robert Hass

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers. ~ Josh Holloway

All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks. ~ Zendaya

In love we are all brothers and sisters ~ Jeff Buckley

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ. ~ Joel Osteen

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate. ~ Dorothy Day

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it. ~ Eric Braeden

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of. ~ Douglas Coupland

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs. ~ Edgar Winter

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred. ~ Margaret Cavendish

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong. ~ Barry White

I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers. ~ Hailee Steinfeld

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. ~ Joyce Brothers

In fairy tales, the heroes are punished when they run away from a task. The heroes, not their younger brothers... ~ Cornelia Funke

There really was no advantage, that I could see, in having brothers: they chewed with their mouths open, and ate every single Poppin' Fresh roll before I'd even had one. ~ Meg Cabot