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If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. -- Swami Vivekananda
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. -- Leo Buscaglia
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. -- Isaac Asimov
When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been. -- Dave Davies
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. -- Mary Renault
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
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. -- Swami Sivananda
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. -- John Keats
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives. -- James W. Black
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of which, for me, was his love of singing, which gave music a central place in our lives. -- James Black
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. -- Abraham Lincoln
I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet. -- Stephen Colbert
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say. -- Maeve Binchy
I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities. -- Sue Monk Kidd
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. -- Washington Irving
There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image. -- Randeep Hooda
The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10. -- Larry MacPhail
The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year and race them. The good ones, the ones that show potentialities, you keep, and the others you get rid of. In that way, you have a chance to build up a good brood mare band. -- Larry MacPhail
I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life? -- Garry Trudeau
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. -- Alan Lightman
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either. -- Thomas Head Raddall
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. -- George Eliot
If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life. -- Suzanne Farrell
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. -- William Shakespeare
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. -- George Eliot
Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past. -- Ann Landers
it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning. -- Freya Stark
To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level. -- Robert Fulghum
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. -- Aldous Huxley
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight. -- Alexandre Dumas
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. -- E. M. Forster
Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
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
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. -- George Eliot
When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever. ~Allen Walker -- Katsura Hoshino
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
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
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
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
One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction. -- Andrea Seigel
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture. -- Hinton Rowan Helper
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting's sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. -- Swami Sivananda
Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment. -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be mounted by a randy stallion -- Larissa Ione
When you're older, no matter how good your humor is you don't always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse. -- Iris Apfel
Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself. -- Margery Wilson
No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream. -- John Keats
He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust... -- Mahatma Gandhi
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives. -- James W. Black
What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood. -- John Gay
The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does. -- Larissa Ione
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
For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work, of old friendshipsOther islands fade as I brood upon them. -- Chuma Nwokolo
Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk. -- Princess Shikishi
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. -- Hermann Hesse
For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work, of old friendships...Other islands fade as I brood upon them. -- Chuma Nwokolo
I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars. -- James Ellroy

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