Beastly Beautiful Quotes & Sayings

People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015. — Pope Benedict XVI

At any given moment, four or five separate dialogues were going on across the table, but because people weren't necessarily talking to the person next to them, these dialogues kept intersecting with one another, causing abrupt shifts in the pairings of the speakers, so that everyone seemed to be taking part in all the conversations at the same time, simultaneously chattering away about his or her own life and eavesdropping on everyone else as well. Add to this the frequent interruptions from the children, the coming and goings of the different courses, the pouring of wine, the dropped plates, overturned glasses, and spilled condiments, the dinner began to resemble an elaborate, hastily improvised vaudeville routine. — Paul Auster

What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember. — Eugene O'Neill

Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart. — Liam Payne

Charm is from the Latin carmen: to sing. By "charm," I mean sing well enough to hold the reader in thrall. Whatever people like about you in the world will manifest itself on the page. What drives them crazy will keep you humble. You'll need both sides of yourself - the beautiful and the beastly - to hold a reader's attention. — Mary Karr

Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp. — Peter Kreeft

There is a Kretan proverb that says that peace is always "over there", but that is no longer true: it is within our grasp. — Graham McNeill

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli

History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust on his tunic and his flat cap. But in the end the builders have had the better of it. The miracles they accomplished in stone are still standing and still beautiful, even with the disintegration of so many centuries on them, but the battlefields where great warriors died are so encroached upon by modern villas and so befouled by the rotting remains of motorcars and the staves of oil barrels that they do not always repay a visit. — Thomas B. Costain

For ever tear dropped, a new seed within you is planted, from which a garden predicting better days will surely emerge. — Daniel Marques

Just give us until Rome."
The tears escaped.
"Just give us until Rome, Melanie. — T.M. Williams

The 2.5 billion seconds that make up the average human — Sam Harris

I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it. — Judd Apatow

I don't blame Germans," Emil said. "I don't even blame Nazis. I blame people who want to live at the expense of others. — Steve Anderson

Whatever else he might be, Jimmy Ferris was special and complicated, beautiful and beastly, all rolled into one. — Kylie Scott

How on earth did I get here, and where the hell are my pants? — John Nunley

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. — Colette

I love how you are focused on your future and everyone else can kiss your ass. — Colleen Hoover