Brian Reed > Brian's Quotes

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.”
― Bill Hicks

“Take your hat off.”
― Don Draper

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
― Dorothy Parker

“For a long time he watched her. When she was lost to sight, he was almost a little moved. But that's life, thought death.”
― Wolf Erlbruch, Ente, Tod und Tulpe