Bedizens Quotes & Sayings

He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man.
He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that they knew not when he died. — Charles Dickens

Haven't you noticed that you tend to understand a person a lot better when you're in direct contact than you do over the phone? Then you make use of the words 'what do you mean?' or a lot less. This is because a great deal of context is lost when you're having a verbal-only conversation, and a lot more is lost when you engage in a text only conversation. We — Jack Steel

I didn't know exactly what the future held, but I knew we were a team. Parting would not break us. — Wendy Higgins

Iain's gaze went back and forth between Gillian and Brodick. "Father Laggan's back," he remarked.
"And there's another, younger priest named Stevens with him."
"Why are you telling me this?" Brodick asked.
"I just wanted you to know there are two priests available," Iain explained with a meaningful glance at
Gillian. — Julie Garwood

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money. — Richard Wagner

Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities. — Arnold Hiatt

Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot. — Maria V. Snyder

One has to crawl like a caterpillar before flying like a butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My thoughts are loving and positive. — Sanaya Roman

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Special Circumstances had always been the Contact section's moral espionage weapon, the very cutting edge of the Culture's interfering diplomatic policy, the elite of the elite, in a society which abhorred elitism. Even before the war, its standing and its image within the Culture had been ambiguous. It was glamorous but dangerous, possessed of an aura of roguish sexiness - there was no other word for it - which implied predation, seduction and even violation ... No other part of the Culture more exactly represented what the society as a whole really stood for, or was more militant in the application of he Culture's fundamental beliefs. Yet no other part embodied less of the society's day-to-day character. — Iain Banks

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave — Charles Caleb Colton