Betian Quotes & Sayings

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was not used to feeling intimidated. It was rather his job in life to intimidate others. — Mark Ellis

Read the book through, undeterred and undismayed by the paragraphs, footnotes, comments, and references that escape you. If you let yourself get stalled, if you allow yourself to be tripped up by any one of these stumbling blocks, you are lost. — Mortimer J. Adler

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense. — Robert Walpole

A friend sat next to a nun on a plane. He asked her what she missed most. "Wearing blue jeans," she replied. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller — Sam Miller

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again. — Margaret Mead

Stories are not just entertainment, not to me. A story records and transmits the experience of being human. It teaches us what it's like to be who we are. Nothing but art can do this. There is no science that can capture the inner life. No words can describe it directly. We can only speak of it in metaphors. We can only say: it's like this - this story, this picture, this song. — Andrew Klavan

Blue loved this ponderous, scholarly Gansey, too involved with facts to consider how he appeared on the outside. — Maggie Stiefvater

My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing. — Billy Idol

In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies. — Michael A. Stackpole

Maryse sighed.Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian? — Cassandra Clare

We do not have a few "rotten apples"; we have a rotten-apple barrel and a pervasive culture of corruption. — Thomas J. Gradel

I always think street but train sport. — Conor McGregor