Beauparlant Law Quotes & Sayings

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. — Frederick Buechner

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. — Charles Spurgeon

I like to remind myself, as a parent, that God holds me responsible to, not for, my children! — Lee Ezell

It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know? — Lee Battersby

24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel! How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them? It must be that they believe in their night vision. They believe themselves able to draw images up out of the dark. But black wells only yield black water. — Helen Oyeyemi

Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell other white Americans, they'll laugh. If I tell an African American, they might not laugh. In fact, they either might not find it funny, or they might find it offensive, and I didn't mean it to be offensive. So these are the sort of little things that build up over time, just like in a marriage. You know, the little things can build up over time. — Michael Emerson

I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are. — Michael Jai White

the show started. The first few times, Jay ignored Joe — Dave Berg

A virtue must be our invention; it must spring out of our personal need and defence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you spend long enough realizing a character in your book, congratulations, you've made a friend for life. — Michael R. French

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing ... — Tim Burton

I think it's a false distinction to say that conversation and composition are separate. Because even as we speak, I'm seeing. Every interview is different, and I'm finding new ways to talk about ancient preoccupations. And I sometimes come on something that's immensely helpful and valuable. Plus I like the sensation of conversation. — Allan Gurganus