Beddison Bridge Quotes & Sayings

Each of us has a sophisticated system that throws away most of our experiences, keeps only a few choice samples, mixes them up with bits from movies we've seen, novels we've read, speeches we've heard, and daydreams we've savoured, and out of all that jumble it weaves a seemingly coherent story about who I am, where I came from and where I am going. This story tells me what to love, whom to hate and what to do with myself. This story may even cause me to sacrifice my life, if that's what the plot requires. We all have our genre. Some people live a tragedy, others inhabit a never-ending religious drama, some approach life as if it were an action film, and not a few act as if in a comedy. But in the end, they are all just stories. What, — Yuval Noah Harari

Be a lamp unto yourself, be a refuge to yourself. Take yourself to no external refuge. — Gautama Buddha

If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Because you pray after you play. — Fuzzy Zoeller

All great and precious things are lonely. — John Steinbeck

The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous. — Dorothy L. Sayers

That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms. — Thomas Woods

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill — Lisa Kleypas

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying ... — Michael Bierut

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated. — Tom Chapin

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on. — Eminem

More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun. — Mae West