Beverley Turner Quotes & Sayings

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. — Ezra Stiles

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess. — Samuel Beckett

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world. — Thomas A. Edison

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality. — Erich Auerbach

If you carry a weapon, it is always to kill. Do not think it is to defend yourself. If you draw your weapon, never get closer than three meters to the person you want to kill, — Charles Kaiser

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Henry York, aka Whimpering Child, aka WC (hair sample included), is hereby identified as Enemy, Hazard, and Human Mishap to all faeren in all districts, in all ways, and in all worlds. — N.D. Wilson

Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself. — Georges Bataille

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change. — James Hansen

He filled every minute of every day with activity. — Anonymous

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound. — Dewey Redman

I can drink a whole Hennessy fifth.
Some call that a problem, but I call it a gift. — Xzibit