Beastly Book Quotes & Sayings

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect. — Robert Shea

Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans. — John Le Carre

He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery ... No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We don't die but once. — Harriet Jacobs

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

History teacher Bob Alston's expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to generate a roadmap to guide his new learning. He was an expert at cultivating puzzlement it was Alston's ability to stand back from first impressions, to question his quick leaps of mind, to keep track of his questions that together pointed him in the direction of new learning. — Sam Wineburg

That's our race. That's our playoffs. — Tim Salmon

He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about, he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it. — George R R Martin

In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall. — Winston Graham

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
A fool:
A man trying to be honest with the dishonest. — Idries Shah

Who owns the patent on this vaccine?'
'Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun? — Jonas Salk

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have - by understanding how money works and making their money work for them. — Robert Kiyosaki

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue. — Kevin Smith

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. — P.G. Wodehouse

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts. — George Eliot

A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured. — Nora Roberts