Behoves Me Quotes & Sayings

I'm a lousy journalist. — Judith Rossner

Adults who could digest raw milk had an excellent source of food on the hoof. Cattle could go on turning grass into milk for years before they were slaughtered for beef. It has been proposed that lactase persistence was the genetic edge that allowed the dairy pastoralist Indo-Europeans to spread. Dairy farming produces five times as many calories per acre as raising cattle for slaughter.61 The protein and calcium of milk certainly build bones. Prehistoric dairy farmers tended to be taller than other farmers.62 — Jean Manco

The Ancient Romans did not regard acts of genius to emanate from within an individual - but rather saw it as a collaboration between a spirit of creativity and a human being. So it could be that sometimes an individual had that power, that divine inspiration, or other times not. The spirit might have moved on to some other lucky soul. — Liz Garbus

I would rather wear out than rust out. — Dan Rather

There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us. — Philippa Carr

Your life isn't something you can leave behind or run away from, because you are it. People, on the other hand, are another matter altogether. — Santa Montefiore

The world is too full of information. — Peter Eisenman

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. — Richard Rolle

Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these bestial men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends. — Maria McCann

Allow me to deal with this Veitch pro bono, sir, which is to say at no cost to yourself whatsoever. I shall smite him with the full fury and force and majesty of the law not purely to insinuate myself into your affections, although that will surely be a corollary effect, but because it is the right thing to do, sir. I am, after all, an officer of the court, and it behoves me when confronted with incompetence and effrontery and the sheer fucking cheek of one such as this Veitch to ruin him utterly for the sake of the very law, sir. The sake of the very law. — Anonymous

concede defeat in the mind, he seems — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper. — John Pym

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. — Gerrit Smith

I have spoken softly, gone my ways softly, all my days, as behoves one who has nothing to say, nowhere to go, and so nothing to gain by being seen or heard. — Samuel Beckett

Somebody tells you they drink because they're a failure, it ain't so. They're a failure because they drink. And they drink because it's so damn hard not to. But as long as they have a bottle that isn't empty, they never feel far from being happy.
("Bums") — William Kent Krueger