Besh Quotes & Sayings

Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all. — Elizabeth Taylor

Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Them them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at those contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they'll break themselves trying for what they'll never achieve. — N.K. Jemisin

I divide my life into two parts. Not really a Before and After, more as if they are bookends, holding together flaccid years of empty musings, years of late adolescent or the twentysomething whose coat of adulthood simply does not fit. — Sarah Winman

...power doesn't shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust. — Pierce Brown

We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it. — Saul Bellow

Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter. — Frederick Lenz

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human. — Benjamin Jealous

If life were a camera, i would be feeling a little out of frame. — Jaeda DeWalt

You must be very proud; the whole city crowded with your lovers. — M.F. Moonzajer

Besh grinned. Only a fool would choose to justify himself by likening his actions to those of a bigger fool. — David B. Coe

All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships. — Ha-Joon Chang

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen. — J. P. Morgan

I've kind of realised life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realised I'm not special. — Marian Keyes

Life is an obstacle and forest, when you have accomplished it all, you get a reward. The reward is Heaven. — Dean F. Bryson