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If need be, the round man can prove a most blunt barrier.
Just ask the man with the hammer. — Steven Erikson

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov

It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully combine with a sense of obligation. — Ian McEwan

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. — William Shakespeare

To make the sea your own, to watch over it, to brood your very soul into it, to accept it and love it as though only it mattered and existed. — Jack Kerouac

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been. — Dave Davies

Black, he couldn't brood constantly on revenge — J.K. Rowling

Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light. — Charles Wesley

It is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning. — Freya Stark

I am queen of the Seven Kingdoms, not a brood mare! — George R R Martin

But it did no good to brood on lost battles and roads not taken. — George R R Martin

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot

And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love's bitter mystery; — W.B.Yeats

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. — George Eliot

The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men. — Timothy Thomas Fortune

If I were a lioness, I would snarl. As it is, I brood. — Tish Harrison Warren

First these people murdered you, then they forced you to brood over their crimes. — Saul Bellow

In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. — Mary Renault

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer. — Kate Richards O'Hare

I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff. — Taylor Kinney

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. — Alexander Smith

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. — Alan Lightman

Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us. — Randy Alcorn

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. — Gordon B. Hinckley

If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood. — Will Christopher Baer

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past. — Ann Landers

Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats. — Nick Harkaway

But his eyes, dimmed by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground. — F Scott Fitzgerald

WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen! — Beatrix Potter

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on. — Richard Ford

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them. — Jerome K. Jerome

Perhaps the woman was waiting beneath the lamps for cats to drop from the trees, like fruit. — Ramsey Campbell

I see,' said Jerott slowly. 'You've thought it all out.'

'That's what I do,' said Lymond. 'I sit on my brood-patch and think. — Dorothy Dunnett

To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level. — Robert Fulghum

Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight. — Alexandre Dumas

In June, Deacon noticed a pattern where Thursday was concerned. Woman, fight, brood alone in angry silence, rinse, and repeat — Mercy Celeste

And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom. — Hunter S. Thompson

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by. — Heinrich Heine

A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies. — Nora Roberts

You don't have to dance. Just brood in beat to the music. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either. — Thomas Head Raddall

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster

In the aether I appear in fiery forms, And in the aer I sit in a silvery chariot; earth reigns in my black brood of puppies. — Porphyry

Inviolable, untrod; goddesses,
Dread brood of Earth and Darkness, here abide. — Sophocles

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. — Leo Buscaglia

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability. — Brandon Sanderson

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life. — Suzanne Farrell

There was nothing romantic about bonding with someone to become a warrior or bonding with someone else to become a brood mare. — Anonymous