Becikowe Quotes & Sayings

The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface.
Love. — Lauren Oliver

That was what he wanted to tell his audience at Cambridge. He divided classical satirists into two classes - fierce men starving in garrets, and renouncing popularity and circulation to dwell in tubs, and calm good-livers "who tell amusingly the kind of truth that no one has ever denied." But for the present century the right spirit, he believed, was self-satire, the ability to see humor in the constant small defeats of life, and "the power to be startled by nothing, however extravagant." The subject, in the end, turned out to be more relevant than it had seemed, as anyone could have told who had heard Eddie and Wilfred laughing together. — Penelope Fitzgerald

Nobody should be surprised that Republicans vote for Republican policy. Just like Democrats vote for Democrat policy. — Reid Ribble

Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves. — Clive Barker

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally. — Peter Singer

Attraction is not an option. — Neil Strauss

The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing. — Marc Parent

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. — William Cobbett

If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year. — Brian Tracy

When a bill was put before the state legislature in Jefferson City that would have prohibited anyone who owned a saloon from holding elective office and reporters asked what he thought of it, Alderman Jim said probably the bill was intended as a way of improving the reputation of saloonkeepers. — David McCullough

I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show. — Robert Preston

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. — Charles William Eliot

Once and for all, there is a great deal I do not want to know. - Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound. — Herman Melville