Beresterk Quotes & Sayings

Are you woman enough to be my man? — Eddie Vedder

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. — Jane Fonda

The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like. — Martin Schulz

I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith. — Andrew Solomon

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials. — Jeri Ryan

The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue. — John Irving

It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest ... The explanation is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance. — Robert M. Pirsig

If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive. — Frederick Lenz

Lucky's monologue: "(...)the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts peniciline and succedanea in a word(...) — Samuel Beckett

You are young and energetic," she said. "It is a healthy thing for you to do. Why would I be offended? Do I suddenly own your sex, that I should be worried about you giving it away?" Vashet stopped as if something had just occurred to her. She turned to look at me. "Are you offended that I have been having sex with others all this while?" She watched my face intently. "I see you are startled by it." "I am startled," I admitted. Then I did a mental inventory and was surprised to discover I wasn't sure how I felt. "I feel I ought to be offended," I said at last. "But I don't think I am." Vashet nodded approvingly. "That is a good sign. It shows you are becoming civilized. The other feeling is what you were brought up to think. It is like an old shirt that no longer fits you. And now, when you look at it closely, you can see it was ugly to begin with. — Patrick Rothfuss

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it. — Pericles

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. — Barbara Hambly

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison? — Ursula K. Le Guin