Betaled Quotes & Sayings

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness. — Alain De Botton

I don't want what we're doing to just end up as notes for a novel. — Ben Lerner

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

When I read these words I saw at once a connection to my own work. Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk. — Michael Chabon

Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield — J.D. Salinger

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. — Mercedes Lackey

Without adjustments to our economic system and regulatory policies, we may be in for an extended period of social turmoil. — Jerry Kaplan

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings. — Cheryl James

Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before. — Meredith Brooks

Knowing of your penchant for trouble, Miss Bowman, I have concluded that it is safer to keep you in my sight, and within arm's reach if possible. — Lisa Kleypas

All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements. — Benjamin Graham

It was how mothers carried on, after all, with a glint in the eye that implied a sure clairvoyance and also that it was your turn to talk. This was the velvet rope mothers offered: enough silence to make a noose with. Mary — Chris Cleave

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. — Seamus Heaney