Besom Quotes & Sayings

Man need discomfort for awaken. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing. — Martin Luther

Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep. — John Updike

Why should I seek for love or study it?
It is of God and passes human wit;
I study hatred with great diligence,
For that's a passion in my own control,
A sort of besom that can clear the soul
Of everything that is not mind or sense. — William Butler Yeats

There are two kinds of courage. There's the kind you get from knowing that what you're doing is right. And there's the kind you get from knowing its hopeless and wrong, and just not giving a damn. — Gareth L. Powell

The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do. — Marilyn French

And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people. I believe in the last days the Spirit of God will be poured out in the nations of Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Because Jesus Christ is the Lord. Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Universe. Amen. — Brother Yun

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me. — Mary Alice Monroe

From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it ... You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable. — Hillary Clinton