Belle Spafford Quotes & Sayings

Don't associate me with comedy. And please don't say actress. I would never call myself any of those things. I hate it when people call me that. — Amy Sedaris

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do. — Dan Harmon

I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women ... A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe. — Belle S. Spafford

Because of my age, the roles that I'm in doesn't have as much depth as I would like, but that will change. Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, they play heavy, meaty roles, which are the sort that I want to play ... because of what I look like, I play with my looks, which is cool, but I've done it so many times. But one day I would love to play against my looks. — Katerina Graham

To me, success is one's ability to keep the faith, develop his God-given talents, and be able to honestly say at the close of life, "the world is a better place because I have lived." — Belle S. Spafford

I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored. — Art Alexakis

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

high cash compensation teaches workers to claim value from the company as it already exists instead of investing their time to create new value in the future. — Peter Thiel

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. — Elizabeth Bowen

It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy
like a national oil company
held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist. — Naomi Klein

This is a wonderful world for women. The richness, the hope, the promise of life today, particularly for women, are exciting beyond belief. Nonetheless, we need stout hearts and strong characters; we need knowledge and training; we need organized effort to meet the future. — Belle S. Spafford

If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science? — John Desmond Bernal

Kids come into the world before their brains are fully developed. The result? Parenthood. — John Medina

Starting to think getting away doesn't have a lot to do with distance. — Oscar H. Bennett

It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer. — Belle S. Spafford