Bedland Quotes & Sayings

How intoxicating to feel like God the Father and to hand out definitive testimonials of bad character and habits. — Albert Camus

I didn't feel particularly close to my father. — Henry Louis Gates

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. — Francis Ford Coppola

None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it. — Whitey Herzog

A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond. — Paul Klee

I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly. — Frederick Lenz

By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young. — Matthew Fox

Do you ever wish that sometimes the world would just stop spinning for a few hours to give you a chance to catch up? — Chloe Neill

The wisdom that comes from being conscious of the real threats to you and your mission will sharpen your deliberateness in decision & choice-making, associations and positioning. — Archibald Marwizi

What happened was that for every $100 of money, by which I mean the cash that people keep in their pockets, and the deposits they have in the bank, for every $100 of money that there was in 1929, by 1933 there was only $67. The Federal Reserve allowed the quantity of money to decline by a third. While, at all times, it had the possibilities and the power of preventing that from happening. — Milton Friedman

The fundamental tension of the profession is the struggle between bold advocacy of the client's interests and the need to establish and hold to limits that prevent advocacy from leading to irrational and inequitable results; and thus the lawyer's job in practice is to be on one hand the impassioned representative of his client to the world, and on the other the wise representative to his client of the legal system, and the society, explaining and upholding the demands and restrictions which that system places on them both. — Scott Turow