Betivi Si Quotes & Sayings

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all. — Wesley Snipes

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. — Herbert Croly

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five. — Martin H. Fischer

2. "HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? or the Will to Truth out of the will to deception? or the generous deed out of selfishness? or the pure sun-bright vision of the wise man out of covetousness? Such genesis is impossible; whoever dreams of it is a fool, nay, worse than a fool; things of the highest value must have a different origin, an origin of THEIR own - in this transitory, seductive, illusory, paltry world, in this turmoil of delusion and cupidity, they cannot have their source. But rather in the lap of Being, in the intransitory, in the concealed God, in the 'Thing-in-itself - THERE must be their source, and nowhere else!" - — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's easy to think that people will like you more if you do whatever they tell you to do, but it's quite the opposite. People don't appreciate pushovers - they use them. — Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have. — Lloyd Banks

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure. — Denise Duhamel

1 JOHN 3 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. — Anonymous

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident. — Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

Blood Genesis In the beginning were the spirits. They were invisible beings, heard and seen only by the most powerful sorcerers or witches. — Anne Rice

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Newter, do you know what a devotee is?"

Newter shook his head.

"It is a slang term for someone who is attracted to people with disabilities, because of the disability. I think it is about power, attraction to someone because they are weak somehow. I think it likely that this Laura sees me as weak because of the way I look, the way I may have trouble day to day, and this is compelling to her in a similar way to how a cripple or a blind man might be to a devotee. This does not appeal to me. — Wildbow