Betellis Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967. — Grace Lee Boggs

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't. — Helmut Jahn

Perhaps it was simple reflex, her own instinct for survival. Or perhaps it had been his
words, bringing back the horror of her mother's death. But when he reached for the
satchel, Adrianne ignored the knife and brought her foot up hard between his legs. The
knife clattered to the ground only seconds before he did.
"Bastard," she muttered as she sent the knife careening into the dark. "Now your pride's
as small as your brain and just as useless."
"Well put," Philip said as he came up behind her. — Nora Roberts

The View from Europe And that was Africa: the long line to the south little higher than the Atlantic that defined it. The sea rolled its drums on the shore, broke in white foam, flowers for the hair of the girls. I sipped the wind with my nostrils, and the smell was the smell of fear. Two million- year-old skulls surfaced from soil fathoms, grinning their disdain at the accuracy of the new weapons. And that was Eden indeed: Adam was black and the woman, Eve, was black; and the serpent, master of the click languages, spoke to them sibilantly of how the machine would sound as it waited under the tree of death, offering them nothing but a pretence of life. 1988 — R.S. Thomas

But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self. — Barbara Sher

I could shoot you in the foot."
"Please do. At least then I wouldn't have to endure this sock humiliation any longer. — Lisa Kessler

A lot of existential questions will be answered just after the "Fuck." As in life itself. — Don Winslow

I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in. — Booker T. Washington

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. — Anne Lamott

Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused ... — Charles Osgood

The NSA is looking for terrorists. They're not getting psychosexual pleasure out of their schadenfreude about you. - — Jon Ronson

Education is the greatest gift to enlightenment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us. — Timothy Keller