Beary Valentines Quotes & Sayings

He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court ... But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism. — Peter Burwash

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform. — Tony Blair

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. — Erica Jong

The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians. — William Gilmore Simms

He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero. — Washington Irving

Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. — Charles Dickens

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison. — Charles Handy

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen. — C.S. Lewis