Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character. — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music.… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow. — James Larkin Copy Share Image
The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude. — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic. — Kelli Garner Copy Share Image
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the… — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Copy Share Image
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the gun with… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Mother's intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don't imagine that she troubled herself to feel very guilty. But the Rev. Mr.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or,… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.” — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit. — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image