Bettye Davis Quotes & Sayings

Get in control. Live your life the way you want to live it. Don't have the money to do that? Remind yourself that your condition is your own damn fault and then commit and constantly recommit yourself to having the money to live any way you want to live. — Larry Winget

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more. — Bertrand Russell

Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don't ostracize the gender in front of you. — Emma Watson

Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society. — Vladimir Lenin

I don't believe in religion, but I do believe in God. There's a big difference between the two. — Raymond L. Atkins

It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the work, I got there... — Jonathan Franzen

The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoops to perpetrate a pun. — Lewis Carroll

The Komodo Dragon — Stephen Harrison

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself. — Edward Betts

The houses are ugly, imitations of imitations. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

When you explain to people how this country [US] works, because we have a presidential single member district system there is no way to start a third party without injuring your friends that is if you start a liberal party you are going to elect conservatives and vice versa. — William Domhoff

Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.'
'I'll tell her,' I said.
'Don't bother. I can always wait here. It's very pleasant in the sun now, isn't it?'
'It's fall now,' I said. 'I don't think you dress warmly enough.'
'It's only cool in the evening,' Evan said. 'I'll wear my coat.'
'Do you know where it is?'
'No. But it's somewhere safe.'
'How do you know?'
'Because I left the poem in it. — Ernest Hemingway,

A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie — R.A. Salvatore

There's just no accounting for evil and meanness, and we can't judge a species by a few bad apples. — Alyssa Day

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. — Polybius