“There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.” LyingSidesSilenceSeaBrotherEqualShipsBoatWheelsFlatsSailingDeckNauticalYachtSailing And The SeaUlyssesBoats And SailingMarinersSailing ShipsShips At SeaSailboatCruise Ships Author:Errol Flynn
“There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!” GivingHumansLittlesSaidSoulRunningFacesNightWishSidesDarkTalkingDarknessBrotherEternalComplicatedStaringHugBeing HumanPropositionsExposureHuman SoulGigsDark SideHowlDark NightDialecticsEither OrMergingDark Night Of The SoulVaderObi Wan Kenobi Author:Stuart Stevens
“Hillary Clinton's younger brother Tony is facing criticism for using the Clintons' political connections to help his career. So on the down side, she has a sketchy brother named Tony. On the up side, she just locked up every vote in New Jersey.” HelpingPoliticalSidesCareersBrotherCriticismConnectionsVoteClintonLockedJerseyNew JerseyLocked UpYounger BrotherSketchy Author:Jimmy Fallon
“My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.” PlayShowsSidesFiveBrotherDadMusicianInstrumentsMy DadMy BrotherGrandmotherMy GrandmotherShow BusinessCousinMy CousinPuerto RicoMarioRico Author:Irene Cara
“Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.” IfsLooksLongTwoHardFactsSidesKindnessBrotherOughtCircumstancesRelationHotEndureAccidentsHandleObligationInjuryTouchedConsideringFamiliarityRepresentingYour BrotherProvocationManageableForbearanceIf ThenAggravatingLong Friendship Author:Epictetus
“Liz Taylor was an amazing woman and screen legend. She was an incredible friend to my brother, at his side through some of his most difficult times and of course loved by his children and our family. She will live on in our hearts forever, my prayers go out to her family.” HeartChildrenCoursesDifficultSidesPrayerForeverBrotherIncrediblesScreensOur FamilyMy BrotherLegendsDifficult TimesLizAmazing Woman Author:LaToya Jackson
“All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.” MenWorldLongHas BeensDoneFightingSidesJusticeForgetSonBrotherBearsOne DayHusbandInjusticeSexismSensibleLong LifeSemblanceSixth Sense Author:Amelia Barr
“My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.” ThinkingWorldWarMotherCoursesFatherSidesLossForgetFiveFourBrotherMajorsMy FamilyDiedRussiaWar Of The WorldsSecond World WarGreat Loss Author:Vladimir Putin
“Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed glasses..Ira had a kid brother who wore high stiff collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.” MadeKidsGirlSidesBehindsKnownClassBoysBrotherPersonalityLowsEastShirtsPairsSpokesHidingSteelGentlenessCollarsLovableSpectaclesIraGershwinCuffsEast SideIncongruity Author:Yip Harburg
“When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, 'One of these days I'm going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.' That's all I've ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.” YearsBigsCareWantedBeautifulLife IsUsedMotherFatherHouseStrongSidesFourBrotherSouthSevenTake CareNineThese DaysMinistersChicagoMamaLiving OnNine Years Author:Mr. T
“Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less and less the more you think about them. So I'm going to have to go with the Gallagher brothers.” ThinkingMeanTwoSongSidesBrotherPopsAll TimeLongevityOasisPop SongGallagherMimesis Author:Matthew Zapruder
“My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.” WayYearsArtWholeTogetherJobsMotherNextFatherSidesDoorsNew YorkBrotherMomMarriedScientistMovedNeighborMy BrotherDancerChicagoMy SisterSymphonyPianistWhole FamilyNext Door NeighborsCellists Author:Jason Graae
“Saying that I am talking out of both sides of my mouth just proves my very point. Politicians would bypass real social issues by referring to my grandfather, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, or to my brother, currently chairman of the Islamic Centre in Geneva.” RealSocialSidesTalkingIssuesBrotherPoliticianProveMouthsMy BrotherIslamicBrotherhoodGrandfatherCentreBoth SidesSocial IssuesMy GrandfatherChairmanReferringBypassGenevaMuslim Brotherhood Author:Tariq Ramadan
“We are helping our Somali brothers get rid of these narrow-minded attackers. The Somali people do not support the extremists, they are on the side of our soldiers.” PeopleHelpingSidesSupportBrotherSoldierExtremistNarrow-mindedSomali Author:Yoweri Museveni
“We are all brothers and sisters under the skin and above it . . . it's super important that we stop lobbing bombs over the top of the wall and start trying to dismantle it, so that we can say 'hi' to whoever is on the other side, whether the divide is religious or nationalistic or politic or economic.” TryingImportantSidesReligiousEconomicBrotherWallSkinsBombsDividesBrothers And SistersOver The TopNationalistic Author:Roger Waters
“You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!” StillsTwoTodayFoundSidesBloodBrotherIndiaBritishUnclesPakistanCousinUnnaturalAmbassadorsSwitzerlandNephewPartitionBlood Brothers Author:Indira Gandhi
“My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!” StoriesFilmMotherFatherSidesClassBrotherLessonsMy FamilyDancingWestMy BrotherMother And FatherEnamoredWest SideTap DancingWest Side Story Author:Marisa Tomei
“I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsLawSidesChurchStreetsBrotherCallingRepublicanConflictWorshipDemocratAbortionGlobal WarmingNeighborhoodLunchInitiativeIn-lawsShortageYour BrotherMosquesSynagogueBrother In Law Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“I mean at the end of the day, we are still brothers [with Malcolm Subban]. But I'm also getting paid to score goals so he better watch that glove side, because I like to go glove side. I know he thinks he's got a hot glove but I'm going to have to try and expose it.” ThinkingKnowsTryingMeanStillsEndsSidesGoalWatchesBrotherPaidHotScoreThe End Of The DayGloves Author:P. K. Subban
“And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.” HomeMotherFatherSidesCitiesBrotherDaughterBlueSouthRaisedWorkersMy BrotherChicagoCollarsBlue Collar Author:Michelle Obama