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Brian Moore Quotes

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: August 25, 1921 - January 11, 1999

Topics

Triumph Company Audience Misery Then

You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby.

Baby Someone Hands You Know Imagine

I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.

Good Hope Job People World Think

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

History Facts Connections Sense Only

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

Michael Ian Black

Age Depression Childhood Think Awake

In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000 boat families had drowned in the harbour. There was no way to avoid the bloated bodies, and when Mary disembarked, she felt her foot land on something soft.

Husband Boat Island Way Land She

Because of ignorance, I wasn't a big fan of Marvel. I hadn't read the magazines. They were not as big in Europe as they are in the United States. They're more a part of modern American mythology. I know more about the original Thor than the Marvel Thor.

Stellan Skarsgard

Ignorance American Know More Europe

The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Culture Play Hot Eat Mine Catholic

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

Enjoy Now Say Nervous Kind Get

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Influence Control Devil Target Enemy

I am conservative, there's no doubt about it. But you can be conservative and still work with people, and that's what my intentions are.

Work I Am People Doubt You Still

Koresh believed that God had a plan that would go contrary to any human planning.

David Thibodeau

God Planning Plan Go Human Would

I think it's good to have competition.

Christian Pulisic

Good Competition Think I Think

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