Beadsmans Quotes & Sayings

Life isn't fair. Why should death be any different? — Gina Damico

I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers. — D.H. Lawrence

Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models. — George Akerlof

The right raw materials can ... double or triple the protective power of the immune system. — Joel Fuhrman

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare. — Greta Garbo

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich. — Ingrid Betancourt

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing. — Robert Wilson Lynd

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. — Henny Youngman

The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind. — Napoleon Hill

Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.- — Marcus Aurelius

My Lord, we wish to resign. Her smile, confusingly, crept wider, as if she just said something delightful. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue "something higher"- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books. — Milan Kundera