Betrenen Quotes & Sayings

A poor nation is full of suffering.
A decadent nation is full of sin.
A learned nation is full of scholars.
A righteous nation is full of saints. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I've kept it inside this long. I can do it for a lot longer. Because I'm strong. — Sara Wolf

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days. — Norah Jones

The free-lovers say: "Let us have the splendour of offering ourselves without the peril of committing ourselves; let us see whether one cannot commit suicide an unlimited number of times." Emphatically it will not work. — Dale Ahlquist

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought. — Carl R. Rogers

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. — Rebecca Solnit

I used to say ... 'Don't sweat the small stuff
not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace. — Christina Applegate

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. — Jack Vance

I felt as if I were living just above the surface of my life. It was lonely and utterly exhausting trying to make sure that everything was perfect all the time. No truth left unsaid, no hand or surface unwashed. Whoever said that high school was the best time of our lives definitely did not have OCD. — Kristin Albright

Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more? — Libba Bray

What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it / From action and adventure? — William Shakespeare

I'm not better when I force shots. I'm going to take them as they come. They are really sagging in there, trying to take me out of the game. It's my job to find guys. I want to be aggressive and take my shots, but I can't force them. — Tim Duncan

To fill your heart with love, just love an innocent animal. — Debasish Mridha

If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it. — Paulo Coelho

Io, Europa, Ganimedes puer, atque Calisto
lascivo nimium perplacuere Iovi.
(Io, Europa, the boy Ganymede, and Callisto greatly pleased lustful Jupiter.)
[Marius naming Jupiter's moons] — Simon Marius