Bf Hardline Quotes & Sayings

He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything. — Oscar Wilde

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man. — Alfred Hitchcock

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter. — Benjamin Disraeli

We can say that we trust God all day long, but if we fear the unknown, then in reality, we don't trust God. — Joyce Meyer

James's general position on the difference between the sexes, which was that woman is "by nature inferior to man. She is man's inferior in passion, his inferior in intellect, and his inferior in physical strength"; she is, very properly, her husband's "patient and unrepining drudge, his beast of burden, his toilsome ox, his dejected ass, his cook, his tailor, his own cheerful nurse and the sleepless guardian of his children." But their inferiority, James thought, is precisely what makes women attractive to men, so that any "great development of passion or intellect in woman is sure to prejudice" male attention. "Would any man fancy a woman after the pattern of Daniel Webster?"33 He consequently opposed serious education for women, a doctrine that had disastrous consequences in the case of his youngest child and only daughter, Alice. — Louis Menand

The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed. — William Whewell

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. — Democritus

I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit. — Sarah Winman

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men. — Sinclair Lewis

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth
but it is also true that every extreme is harmful. — Henryk Sienkiewicz