Brood Quotes
83 quotes by 73 authors
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
— Isaac Asimov
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all…
— George Eliot
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Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of…
— Richard Sibbes
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm,…
— Kate Chopin
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When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
— Thomas Head Raddall
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The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the…
— Eknath Easwaran
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Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
— E. M. Forster
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One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .…
— Charles Dickens
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Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the…
— Robinson Jeffers
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I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses…
— Alexander Smith
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We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence,…
— Princess Shikishi
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My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which…
— James Black
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Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.
— Suzanne Farrell
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Make certain decisions only once . . . We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in our lives and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not…
— Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and…
— David O. McKay
Who Wrote These Brood Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 83 Brood Quotes, led by these top contributors: