When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.
James Brown

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
Sting

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Thucydides

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.
Hu Shih

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Allen Ginsberg

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
Rutherford B. Hayes

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.
David Rockefeller

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
Bill Murray

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
Nancy Pelosi

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Tom Stoppard

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
John Henrik Clarke

In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
Harpo Marx

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
Rosa Luxemburg

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
Billy Corgan

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
Evelyn Waugh

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
Lenny Kravitz

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
Isabelle Adjani

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
Isabelle Adjani

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
Tom Waits

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.
Monica Lewinsky