Bechthold Publications Quotes & Sayings

And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors. — Plato

God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not greater or better; they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve. — Helder Camara

Half-heartedness never won a battle. — William McKinley

Don't let toxic people infect you with the fear of giving and receiving one of the most powerful forces in this world ... LOVE! — Yvonne Pierre

Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born. — Glenn Haybittle

If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.' — Mickey Mantle

If all the world's a stage, there must be one exhausted stage manager somewhere! — Tom Althouse

A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth. — Francis Of Assisi

In solitude, you listen to sacred voice. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Where physical survival was relatively easy, one created rules to make social survival more difficult. — Anne Perry

Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave
you may be given the opportunity. — Pat Heim

Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour's worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden's not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants "the same grub and the same pay," as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes the leaders of each country should fight each other in an arena to settle the war; the "wrong" people currently do the fighting. — Erich Maria Remarque