Bea Binene Quotes & Sayings

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ... — Rudyard Kipling

Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better. — Stevie Smith

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. — G.K. Chesterton

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies. — Jennifer Capriati

Fish are unable, of course, to speak for themselves about how we treat them. They have ways of communicating with each other and, in some cases, even with other species of fish, as the groupers and eels do. As with most animals, their inability to communicate directly with us puts them at a disadvantage. They cannot argue for their rights or how they might best be treated or farmed or managed in the wild. Most animals have no voice that we can hear, unless we speak up for them. And even if an animal could talk, would we listen? — Virginia Morell

Over the years, I've found myself wishing sometimes my angel would show up. I could use a little uplift, a little reminder. — Roma Downey

And I look back. Alex — Lauren Oliver

[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament, — Karl Marx