Brood Quotes

83 quotes by 73 authors

To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level. — Robert Fulghum
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;… — Mark Twain
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight. — Alexandre Dumas
We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more… — Gordon B. Hinckley
His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be… — Larissa Ione
Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability. — Brandon Sanderson
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. — Alan Lightman
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. — Aldous Huxley
I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most… — Leila Aboulela
Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century,… — Larissa Ione
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made… — Mark Twain
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith,… — Swami Vivekananda
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. — Mary Renault
I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully… — Eddie Rickenbacker
The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year and… — Larry MacPhail
I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the… — Sue Monk Kidd
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn… — Maeve Binchy
When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been. — Dave Davies
Disappointment or misfortune don't last long among us, the poor; we can't live if we brood on them the whole time — Unknown Author

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