Beltramos Quotes & Sayings

She would let a speeding automobile hit her to show them all how unloved she was. — Lisa Dierbeck

If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen ... where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him. — Keith Green

There are many who wish to be masters over others. Rare indeed is the man who wishes to be master of himself — Radhe Maa

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork. — Joyce Carol Oates

Disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again. — Charlotte Armstrong

The next time you feel you have to say, "I love you" to someone, say it to yourself - and see if you believe it. — Harvey Fierstein

Muslim, Jew, Hindu or Christian, you are that because of where and when you were born. If you are an atheist, you are that because of a book or two you read, or who your parents were and the century in which you were born. Don't delude yourself: there are no good reasons for anything, just circumstances. Don't delude yourself: you may describe yourself to others by claiming a label of atheist, Jew, evangelical, gay or straight but you know that you are really lots more complicated than that, a gene-driven primate and something more. Want to be sure you have THE TRUTH about yourself and want to be consistent to that truth? Then prepare to go mad. Or prepare to turn off your brain and cling to some form or other of fundamentalism, be that religious or secular. — Frank Schaeffer

If grief were a force of nature it would be the sea, that rose and rose higher like waves, each blow leaving you breathless, each wave greater than the last, hitting you quicker than you can recover, finally dragging you down into its dark depths.
I drowned in mine. — Gowri Rekha

Fall in love with the process, and the results will come. — Eric Thomas

and a hundred savage painted Indians ran howling down upon the inn yard. — Edward Eager

Stiftung is not enveloping thought, but open thought, not the intended and Vorhabe of an actual center, but an 'off-center' which will be rectified, not the positing of an end, but the positing of a style, not a frontal grasp but a lateral divergence, algae brought back from the depths. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit - — Virginia Woolf

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi