Beins Quotes & Sayings

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace. — William Safire

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. — William Makepeace Thackeray

You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity. — Desmond Tutu

You have to learn to play with what you've got. — Don Meyer

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble. — Imelda Marcos

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out. — Elizabeth Warren

Once upon a time, there was a King who walked astride his world - here, there and everywhere. He became poor in order to be like the people he loved, and he lived among the outcasts in order to feel their pain. — David R. Mains

If you are going to open a retail store you would want to consider Christmas. Most retailers make the majority of their entire year's income between — Dave Ramsey

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers. — Mary Harron

The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization. — Elizabeth Neel

Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty. — Paulo Coelho