Quotes & Sayings About Bessie Jane Eyre

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis. — Upton Sinclair

And the men of Mars realized that in order to survive they would have to forgo asking that one question any longer: Why live? Life was its own answer. — Ray Bradbury

Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution. — Bill Lambrecht

Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn. — Lou Gerstner

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand ... — Soren Kierkegaard

We spend much of the first half of our lives trying to build internal models that fit the world and much of the last half of our lives trying to adjust the world so it fits the inner models. — Bruce Wexler

If you're a die-hard "foodie," hop off the road in DuBois and enjoy a Subway sandwich made at a place that is eighty percent gas station. — Tina Fey

He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too. — Stjepan Mesic

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Do you carry a dagger, Your Highness?"
Raisa nodded. "I do, as a rule, but Micah and Fiona took mine."
"Then take this one." He wiped the blade on his breeches, returned the blade to a sheath at his waist, then unbuckled the belt, handing the whole package to her. Raisa slid the blade free, turning it so it caught the light. It was of the same make and design as the Lady sword, with the image of Hanalea worked into the hilt.
"I can't take this!" She protested. "It belongs to your family."
"I've not much use for it, in fact," Byrne replied. "If I let an enemy get close enough to need it, I deserve what I get. — Cinda Williams Chima

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves. — Erich Fromm

Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them. — Aristotle.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world. — Jim Walsh