Belsey Collis Quotes & Sayings

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest. — Wole Soyinka

There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking. — Alexis Tsipras

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell. — Brandon Sanderson

The reaction of the people below to this fantastic sight and sound was one of wild excitement. Details could be seen vividly from aloft. An elderly man and woman fell to their knees and prayed. People in the villages stood still and gaped upward. Most of them still had their Sunday finery on. "You could see people going to church...man, wife, and child walking along the country roads." Bombardier Herbert Light, through his binoculars, saw an open-air festival in progress, with the women dressed in colorful skirts and blouses. One of them threw her apron over her head in panic.
As they roared over the wheat fields, the first unfriendly acts occurred: farmers threw stones and pitchforks at them. One farmer leading two horses was startled by the advancing planes and leaped into a nearby stream. A girl swimming in another river was reported by ten separate crews. — Leon Wolff

Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do. — Anderson Cooper

Oh, so it's now I have to find — Aaliyah Burkes, Tiffany

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious. — Caroline Leavitt

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don't want to break them. That's how you drive in the rain. — Garth Stein

In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good, and if it was already good before scripture said so, then it was good for some reason inherent to itself, some reason that reason could discover. — Tamim Ansary

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader. — Phil Ochs

If I were a man I would kill you!"
"If you were a man we wouldn't be having this conversation! — Georgette Heyer