Ron Brackin > Quotes

“When a lady accessorizes in here in Texas, she's selecting caliber, not color.”
― Ron Brackin

“If it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, why keep score?”
― Ron Brackin

“Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.”
― Ron Brackin

“Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.”
― Ron Brackin

“The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative.”
― Ron Brackin

“Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.”
― Ron Brackin, Forgive Your Way to Better Health, Greater Productivity, and World Peace

“One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.”
― Ron Brackin

“The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.”
― Ron Brackin

“That America is an exceptional nation is unclear only to one who has not been taught its true history. It ceases to be exceptional only when its representative leaders cease to be exceptional. America, it has been said, is a nation of laws, not of men. The more it becomes a nation of men, the less it remains America.”
― Ron Brackin

“What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.”
― Ron Brackin

“Reading book reviews is like asking other people to chew your food for you.”
― Ron Brackin

“If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep get smaller when it rains?”
― Ron Brackin

“When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.”
― Ron Brackin

“In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both.”
― Ron Brackin

“Greed and Lust never say, "Enough!”
― Ron Brackin

“Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.”
― Ron Brackin

“If we were able to distill all human experience to its essence, it would be a question on the lips of a man named Jesus. As he asked Peter, he asks all mankind, "Who do you say that I am?"

"Our idea of God," observed Thomas Merton, "tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
― Ron Brackin

“Writing a NYT bestseller was a delightful experience. But there are many books which are read by few that should be read and reread by many, as well as books bought by many that are hardly worth the ink.”
― Ron Brackin

“Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.”
― Ron Brackin

“There is no such thing as a bottomless pit. If it were bottomless, it would not be a pit. The only thing that comes close to being a bottomless pit is the intrinsic depravity of mankind.”
― Ron Brackin

“SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.”
― Ron Brackin

“Laws without enforced consequences are merely suggestions.”
― Ron Brackin

“No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.”
― Ron Brackin

“The massive doors of Area 51 closed behind him, echoing like iron thunder. Carl stood for a moment, inhaling the hot desert air, wondering whether to tell the world the wonders he had seen, and, if so, how. Amazing things. Other-worldly things. Also a set of car keys. And one brown sock.”
― Ron Brackin

“The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture--not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with--that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.”
― Ron Brackin

“The right to choose does not mean the choice is right.”
― Ron Brackin

“The problem with today's culture is that we have too many rights and not enough wrongs.”
― Ron Brackin

“Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.”
― Ron Brackin

“God clues us in to the fact that, "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." In short, God is not logical. This is not to say that he is illogical, only that he is not limited by logic. Simplified, "logic" is connecting the dots. We identify the dots we consider relevant, then connect them into lines and patterns. God, on the other hand, may see that, beneath one of the dots is a stack of a trillion more dots, each of which may be combined with the others. Little wonder that our ways and meanings frequently fail to match God's ways and meanings. Great wonder that, when they don't, we tend to fault him.”
― Ron Brackin

“Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.”
― Ron Brackin