Betsye Caughey Quotes & Sayings

I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed that he ever realised how the roof of the Sistine Chapel might be made into an awful imitation of a divine drama that could only be acted in the heavens. — G.K. Chesterton

I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time. — John Naisbitt

You can't just say that, Pasquale. Those words have tremendous power. It's how people end up married. — Jess Walter

You pursue excellence when you care about something other than your own excellence. — Michael S. Horton

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice. — Billy Eckstine

The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the king the basis of his kingdoms, the sun of his microcosm, the heart of the state; from him all power arises and all grace stems. — William Harvey

Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support. — Mahatma Gandhi

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. — Henry David Thoreau

It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business. — Maxine Waters

'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story. — Ben Lovett

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences. — John Stuart Mill

Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life. — Debasish Mridha

The air smelt of booze, sweat and cheap perfume - redolent of sex and danger. There was a kind of frontier recklessness about the atmosphere, Bond thought, and recognised its allure. — William Boyd

I'd rather write about polar bears than people. — Mary Oliver