Barbaras Beaver Quotes & Sayings

Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked
By various diseases of the intellect
Or failing body. How am I still upright?
And even I sleep half the day, cough half the night.

How did it come to this? How else but through
The course of years, and what its workings do
To wood, stone, glass and almost all the metals,
Smouldering already in the fresh rose petals.

Our energy deceived us. Blessed with the knack
To get things done, we thought to get it back
Each time we lost it, just by taking breath -
And some of us are racing yet as we face death.

Well, good to see you. Sorry I have to fly.
I'm struggling with a deadline, God knows why,
And ghosts keep interrupting. Think of me
The way I do of you. Quite often. Constantly. — Clive James

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. — Alfred P. Sloan

But the true measure of a society's freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists. — Glenn Greenwald

When people think of Aerosmith, I want them to think of the music we've made and nothing else. I don't want the responsibility of some young kid trying to live his life like I did back in the '70's. — Steven Tyler

No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education. — James Lankford

I don't need Coulson or the cavalry," Natasha said finally. "Please, I'm my own cavalry. — Margaret Stohl

You will win if you don't quit — Les Brown

Canada is built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action. — Tupac Shakur

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die. — Seneca The Younger

Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the time by yourself, and your organs, and your head. Your arms weigh down your shoulders. In space simulation, you get to fly like Superman! You're hanging in the air! It's the coolest thing. — Mary Roach

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education. — David O. Russell

The All is everywhere, and anywhere may become the seat of power. Any blade of grass may assume, in myth, the figure of the savior and conduct the questing wanderer into the sanctum sanctorum of his own heart. — Joseph Campbell

Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy. — Eckhart Tolle