Bedier Amsterdam Quotes & Sayings

These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be ended at a stroke if we had all the candidates for prime minister simply say that the right to remain here is not in question and I call again upon Theresa May and on the current prime minster to do that. That would be the humane thing to do and I even at this stage hope that that's a direction they will take. — Nicola Sturgeon

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way. — Patrice Leconte

Everyone there pretended to be so bohemian and radical but really they were all worried about offending everyone else and she was fucking sick of it. — Claire Vaye Watkins

Now that she was conscious there was no end to her questions and exclamations, for Dot was a born traveler, meant to go places, unlike us. — Louise Erdrich

Pamela clearly saw how torn I was. Her eyes broadcast and somehow amplified every argument her mouth could have made if she let it. It worked. "Do you want me to stay here, too?" I asked her, feeling my shoulders rising. Pam nodded, guilt creasing her features. "Yes," she said. She might have felt guilty, but she sounded relieved. "Stay here with me. — Lia Habel

Being near him was like being in a cloud, making my vision blur and taking away some of reality's harshness with its mist. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

How ... ?" she began, and she stopped. She was too tired. She hoped that she wouldn't have to say the rest of the sentence, that Billy would finish it for her. But Billy had no idea what was on her mind. "How what, Mother?" he prompted. She swallowed hard, shed some tears. Then she gathered energy from all over her ruined body, even from her toes and fingertips. At last she had accumulated enough to whisper this complete sentence: "How did I get so old? — Kurt Vonnegut

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them! — Vincent De Paul

Everyone has issues they are passionate about, they care about. Step up, do something that you know absolutely you can achieve. We each have a sphere of influence. It may be just our family and a few close friends, or it might be the reach into government. Exercise what you can do, not what you can't do. Recognize there are millions of others doing the same. Act on things you know to be right and true. — Nick Begich

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. — J.I. Packer