Beverly Guy Sheftall Quotes & Sayings

I had retreated to reporting because I doubted the reality of my inner voice — Gloria Steinem

If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet. — Gordon Moore

If I were an adult, I would be drinking coffee; as it is, I'm drinking Mountain Dew. — Chuck Klosterman

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. — W.B.Yeats

I played with children so that I could learn from them. — Shinichi Suzuki

I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it. — Frankie Valli

Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two non-doings All actions proceed. All things are made. How vast, how invisible This coming-to-be! All things come from nowhere! How vast, how invisible No way to explain it! All beings in their perfection Are born of non-doing. Hence it is said: Heaven and earth do nothing Yet there is nothing they do not do. Where is the man who can attain To this non-doing? — Zhuangzi

SVU, CSI, CSI: NY. These shows, they're all about things being done to females and children. If they were full of thing being done to say, Asians or black people, well, that probably wouldn't be allowed - not as many shows all the time. But females and children are okay. — Kirsty Eagar

Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
Rising thro' the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies,
Tangled in a silver braid. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured? — Jeff VanderMeer

We either base our 'confidence' on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is blind by definition. Faith is the most dishonest position it is possible to have, because it is an assertion of stoic conviction that is assumed without reason and defended against all reason. If you have to believe it on faith, you have no reason to believe it at all. — AronRa

My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level. — Dan Gable

It's about money: Healthcare is America's largest industry by far, employing a sixth of the country's workforce. — Steven Brill

Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey. — Bill Engvall

Do we talk about feeling neglected and rejected by the Church? Yes. Do we bash a bishop or two, talk a little trash about the Vatican, moan about a priest who said something dumb about women or gays or both? Sure. But mostly we talk about what faith does for us, how it moves us through life with an awareness of other people's suffering, and drives us to do something about that suffering. It reminds me of a conversation I had with Father Mellow, way back on the first night I spoke to him. "The Church is both sinner and holy," he said. "So are all of us. — Kaya Oakes