Beableand Quotes & Sayings

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future. — Lord Acton

Life is nutty; anything can happen. — Paul Shaffer

I love you every day,
Mom — Mitch Albom

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight. — Daniel Drew

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love ... — Hadewijch

Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing. — Albert Camus

Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking. — Atul Gawande