Bellema Quotes & Sayings

more tax breaks for the very rich is only one symptom of an economic and political system that is grotesquely failing the average American. — Bernie Sanders

I don't think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it's about maintaining a militia. It's about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation. — Alec Wilkinson

I think you may judge of a man's character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart. — Charles Spurgeon

Dandelion! You're asleep in the saddle!' 'I'm not asleep. I'm thinking creatively! — Andrzej Sapkowski

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. — William Faulkner

We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is. — Warren Rudman

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them. — Nancy Kress

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group. — Ziyi Zhang

Her finger tapped at his chest. "You and I will have a talk about doing things behind my back," she said and turned toward the kitchen.

"Tate, honey, you know I love doing nasty things behind you. And you like them too," he whispered to her and chuckled. She turned to glare at him, but he offered her his most charming smile, and she just shook her head. — Elle Aycart

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules. — Roald Hoffmann

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
— Joseph Conrad

Whenever doubts become a crime ... whenever parents become afraid their children might turn them in; a country where the power of the government is mired inextricably with the jurisdiction and the executive, where you have three secret polices spying on the population and people disappear without a word, that is not my country ... My country and Nazi Germany, those are two very different places. And I dearly hope I'll live to see the day when the latter one falls. — Osiris Brackhaus

You orchestrate happiness, Dolores - you work at it. You don't catch it as it hurls toward you like a football — Wally Lamb

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. — George Sand

Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues. — Paula Creamer