John Bracken quote: "If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived."

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JOHN BRACKEN

But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of exc...
EDDIE BRACKEN

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
EDDIE BRACKEN

Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was ver...
EDDIE BRACKEN

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
EDDIE BRACKEN

Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at y...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Don’t be scared. Don’t let them see.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones.
No you aren't, he promised. Your one of...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass
Everyone does this occasional...
PEG BRACKEN

Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirt...
PEG BRACKEN

You do have a choice, you know,” Etta told her after a moment. “There is always a choice.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Und manchmal passiert einem das Leben einfach, und man kann ihm nicht ausweichen Es kracht voll in e...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in te...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your famil...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

We make it as real as possible using real people for rescue training and first aid training as often...
BRACKEN SPENCER

You gotta keep going. You gotta have the hope there's gonna be someone down there and to bring closu...
BRACKEN SPENCER

You get in here...there's trap doors, ropes, things you have to crawl through.
BRACKEN SPENCER

You can breathe for one hour.
BRACKEN SPENCER

It is unfortunate to hear when accidents happen but at the same time you recognize it is part of the...
BRACKEN SPENCER

Every mine is required to have a mine rescue team.
BRACKEN SPENCER

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning ...
PEG BRACKEN

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that...
PEG BRACKEN

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much
PEG BRACKEN

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that does...
PEG BRACKEN

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirt...
PEG BRACKEN

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.
PEG BRACKEN

Brett's the sort of bowler that's going to be attacking and at the batsman, which probably suits me ...
NATHAN BRACKEN

Life isn’t fair." I said. "It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always going to disappoint ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in thei...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

—I don't want to lose you
—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Why are you so weird?"
"Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-st...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Let me tell you what I think about your fucking rules," he said, his voice dripping with veno...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Yes, well”—he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose delicately—“the burner phone we h...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

They'd never fade, even in the afterlight of all of this
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

It rained the day they brought us to Thurmond.
And it rained the day I walked out.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I feel like I'm losing my damn mind, like your face has been carved into my heart, and I don't remem...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Liam cleared his throat again and turned to fully face me. “So, it’s the summer and you’re in ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Even Preston Sturges wouldn't dare to rewrite a Preston Sturges script.
EDDIE BRACKEN

Just shut up and start sucking each other's faces already," Vida grumbled, leaning awkwardly against...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it arou...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I walked until I lost the light from the fire pit, clawing at my T-shirt, trying to pull it away fro...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Guys said some key things in the room to stay confident. We've been coming back on teams all year. W...
BRACKEN KEARNS

I've never had a feeling like this on a team. It just doesn't feel like we're ever going to lose eve...
BRACKEN KEARNS

I always play well in this rink, even if I'm in a slump. I have a lot of confidence in this barn. I ...
BRACKEN KEARNS

It was so important for us for a variety of factors. We have not lost in the playoffs, so we have a ...
BRACKEN KEARNS

We are all on the same page. We're not Gretzky out there. We have to work hard.
BRACKEN KEARNS

Home-ice advantage would be huge. It's a smaller rink and the fans are unbelievable. Teams have a to...
BRACKEN KEARNS

How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel?”
...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?
Yes.
Because dreamers...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
PEG BRACKEN.

But hey, what's life without a little adversity?"
That had to have been the fakest attempt at o...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration th...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Try again, I've gotten much better at detecting your bullshit
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Chubs didn’t have to finish. I knew what I’d been when I’d found them: a terrified splinter of...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Cate had told me once, a long time ago, that the only way to survive your past was to find a way to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

What?” The word exploded out of me. “What do you want me to tell you? You want to hear about how...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I started at the beginning, the escape. Fleeing through the forest, meeting a new danger at every tu...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Let’s see if I remember all of this—born in Charlottesville, Virginia, but raised in Salem by he...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

You are actually the worst person I have ever met,” Chubs said. “And people like you are the rea...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Me and nice things didn't go well together.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

My fear for you outweighs my fear of him,” he said simply. “And I told you, didn’t I? If you l...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Do I look as pretty as I feel?
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

When I first read 'Outlander' a few years ago, I was shocked to find that Jamie was the comp...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American hi...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I absolutely love Johnny Depp, and I genuinely think he's one of the best actors of our time.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

From the time I was in first grade or so, my dad collected 'Star Wars' toy figures from the ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

One of the things I noticed while I lived in New York City was how different the kids and teens were...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Where did she come from, and where can I find one?"

"Picked this one up at a gas station ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

So help me God,” I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. “If you go back on your word...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We ca...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Quite frankly, the community has lost confidence in the commissioners' ability to support the Black ...
EDDIE BRACKEN

But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitem...
EDDIE BRACKEN

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
EDDIE BRACKEN

Oh my God, Green,” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socks
...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

My, my." A feral grin spread across Cole's face. "Little brother must be a good kisser.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set he...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick," Vida said w...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

...crackers..." a voice breathed out nehind us, "yesss..."
Both of us turned, watching as Chubs...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

That was not like riding a bike, you asshole!
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Did you know...you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at y...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Maybe I was still broken and would always be-but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Forgive yourself, but don't forget
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Give 'em hell, darlin
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Good ideas had in the dark were generally best left there.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I can't--I can't think about anything or anyone else," he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging bac...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking t...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?"
Because you would never...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go thr...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Then he was stepping back, away, letting distance flood between us again. His voice was low, rough. ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

You can push someone’s button over and over again to get what you want, but there comes a point wh...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I would have torn this whole damn country apart looking for you," I said softly.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I don't need a protector,” Etta said. “I need a partner.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

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John Bracken

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

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