Beautiful Boy Sheff Quotes & Sayings

Much of the difficulty in attempting to restructure American and other societies arises form this resistance by groups with vested interests in the status quo. Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and its resisted. — Carl Sagan

Harold glared sullenly at him again, the eyes those of a piggy little boy who wants the whole cookie jar to himself. Ain't he going to be surprised, Stu thought, when he finds out a girl isn't a jar of cookies. — Stephen King

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. — David Sheff

The seven of them rode for two hours into country that seemed to contain nothing except itself. — Larry McMurtry

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are. — Amity Gaige

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. — Robert A. Heinlein

The air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something. — Sarah Vowell

If it's the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I'm driving down a long road with a short bridge. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is hopeless, I cannot say it. I give a little whooping cough and raise my eyes to his face. I cannot help myself, I hate him like an enemy, I cannot stop myself dreaming of his enemy, I cannot say his name, I cannot possibly marry him. But Henry, prosaic and real, understands exactly what is happening, and gives me a sharp corrective pinch with his fingers in the soft palm of my hand. He uses his nails, he digs into my flesh, I yelp at the pain, and his hard brown gaze emerges from the mist and I see his scowl. I snatch at a gasp of air. "Say it!" he mutters furiously. I master myself and say again, correctly this time, "I, Elizabeth, take thee, Henry . . . — Philippa Gregory

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes. — Lincoln Steffens

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not. — Robert A. Heinlein

There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective? — Jay Woodman

I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it. — David Sheff

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event. — Kenneth Tynan