Beefeater 24 Quotes & Sayings

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did. — George R R Martin

Believers are often thought of as people who have some kind of private conviction or repudiation of something, whereas "the faithful" refers to a relationship, which was also incidentally the earlier sense of "faith" in premodern, preliberal Christianity. This is not to say, incidentally, that "faith" refers simply to external behavior as opposed to internal belief but that it refers to an act. — Talal Asad

He cried, almost entire night. He cried alone in his small shed. That was only game that he could play without needing another person to participate. — Kambiz Shabankareh

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man. — Philip Jose Farmer

Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. — Flannery O'Connor

The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one. — Rumi

Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest. — Cheryl Hayashi

We should be patient in developing and strengthening our testimonies. Rather than expecting immediate or spectacular manifestations, though they will come when needed, we should pray for a testimony, study the scriptures, follow the counsel of our prophet and other Church leaders, and live the principles of the gospel. Our testimonies then will grow and mature naturally, perhaps imperceptibly at times, until they become driving forces in our lives. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money. — Anna Wintour

Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time. — Aldous Huxley

You are my queen. I've spent nine centuries seeking the mortal who would free this court, who would save my best friend's son, who would save the lives of the rest of the girls who were not you. I'd die before I'd allow harm to you. He bowed his head. — Melissa Marr

She wouldn't have understood. Or worse, she would've pretended to understand, but then got annoyed when her support didn't magically cure me. — Holly Bourne

Incompetents invariably made trouble for people other than themselves. — Larry McMurtry

The world is, she would say. It just is, boy. — Richard Flanagan