Betschmans Flower Quotes & Sayings

He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments. — Baruch Spinoza

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves. — Drew Barrymore

History is who we are right now. I mean, just because a chapter of life is over, it isn't gone ... (Page 303) — Holly Schindler

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe! — George Crabbe

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine. — Marianne Moore

We had one idiot put a bomb in a shoe, and now everybody's got to take their shoes off? Where's the bra bomber at? I say, if we've gotta wait in line, let's make it fun for everybody. — Alonzo Bodden

I work out five days a week for 20 minutes; I only do one body part a day. — Rene Russo

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you. — Elise Broach

I realize that definitions spark controversy and disagreement, but I'm okay with that. I'd rather we debate the meaning of words that are important to us than not discuss them at all. — Brene Brown

By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell. — Maya Angelou

Our connection was like a hidden force pulling us towards one another, and resisting it took a strength that I didn't know I could keep up for much longer. — Michelle Madow