Beeken Quotes & Sayings

Don't cease till your rivals turn to allies, failures to lessons; your liabilities to assets, pains to joy. You're able to finish the race! — Assegid Habtewold

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you. — Jones Loflin

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion. — Mother Teresa

We are all dying
of something, always,
but our degrees of
awareness differ
- from Tubes — Donald Hall

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much. — Ada Yonath

Seemingly innocuous language like 'Oh, I'm flexible' or 'What do you want to do tonight?' has a dark computational underbelly that should make you think twice. It has the veneer of kindness about it, but it does two deeply alarming things. First, it passes the cognitive buck: 'Here's a problem, you handle it.' Second, by not stating your preferences, it invites the others to simulate or imagine them. And as we have seen, the simulation of the minds of others is one of the biggest computational challenges a mind (or machine) can ever face. — Brian Christian

we have to emphasise this point because the preparation is not finished just when a man has finished his preparation of the sermon. One of the remarkable things about preaching is that often one finds that the best things one says are things that have not been premeditated, and were not even thought of in the preparation of the sermon, but are given while one is actually speaking and preaching. Another — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people. — Tana French