Beder Meye Quotes & Sayings

And she draws Boethius's imagination far up into the heavens so that he can look down on the Earth and see it as a tiny speck on which even tinier people play out their comical and ultimately insignificant ambitions. She gets him to admit that riches and fame bring anxiety and avarice, not peace and happiness. — Jonathan Haidt

To the best account; it is an unintelligent waste of strength. — Will Durant

In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they are in an abridged edition, and you lose the life of the work. Don't think that art that is alive can remain on the same level of interest throughout - and the same is true of life. — W. H. Auden

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work. — Robert Jay Lifton

I don't want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in, I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character; it doesn't have to be a huge part. — Alison Doody

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's. — P. J. O'Rourke

Lord, I surrender myself to You to do with me as You will. Grant that I may become a healing presence to others. — Albert S. Rossi