Bevies Crossword Quotes & Sayings

In one short sentence, it is captaincy that counts — Bernard Montgomery

it wasn't that we had been so brave or bold, but that we'd simply traded one fear for another - afraid of what we were about to do for the fear of what we might not. "How — Craig Johnson

A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to mix the two together. According to the above, they will explode in my face. Here goes ...
Well ... I'm still here! I poured the hydrogen peroxide into the hydroquinone, and absolutely nothing happened. It didn't event get warm! — Richard Dawkins

The walks met a need: they were a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and once I discovered them as therapy, they became the normal thing, and I forgot what life had been like before I started walking, — Teju Cole

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. — Mary Todd Lincoln

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. — Anne Rice

It still makes me happy to think back to those words and that look — Anne Frank

i am losing parts of you like i lose eyelashes
unknowingly and everywhere — Rupi Kaur

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples. — Warren Ellis

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture — Multatuli

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book. — Joel Stein

Paint the sky of life with colors that only you can create! — H. L. Balcomb

In the reign of the emperor Caracalla, an innumerable swarm of Suevi appeared on the banks of the Main, and in the neighbourhood of the Roman provinces, in quest either of food, of plunder, or of glory. The hasty army of volunteers gradually coalesced into a great and permanent nation, and, as it was composed from so many different tribes, assumed the name of Alemanni, or Allmen, to denote at once their various lineage and their common bravery.31 The latter was soon felt by the Romans in many a hostile inroad. The Alemanni fought chiefly on horseback; but their cavalry was rendered still more formidable by a mixture of light infantry selected from the bravest and most active of the youth, whom frequent exercise had enured to accompany the horsemen in the longest march, the most rapid charge, or the most precipitate retreat.32 — Edward Gibbon