Bekhtereva Quotes & Sayings

All compassion is lost when healthcare trades beneficence for business. — P.J. Nathan

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster. — Lucian Freud

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions. — Sigmar Gabriel

DODD REITERATED HIS COMMITMENT to objectivity and understanding in an August 12 letter to Roosevelt, in which he wrote that while he did not approve of Germany's treatment of Jews or Hitler's drive to restore the country's military power, "fundamentally, I believe a people has a right to govern itself and that other peoples must exercise patience even when cruelties and injustices are done. Give men a chance to try their schemes. — Erik Larson

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. — Lillian Hellman

Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end. — Daisaku Ikeda

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays. — Casey Wilson

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. — Lloyd Jones

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. — William Shakespeare

Maybe all you needed in life was the belief you could change things. Somehow. Some way. — Holly Bourne

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it. — Luis Fortuno

Passion Is the Currency of Happiness — Jesse Tevelow

GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!! ... is how I climax. — T. J. Miller

At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours. — Studs Terkel