Biddlecombe Times Quotes & Sayings

Believing in negative thoughts is one of the greatest obstructions to success. — Charles F. Glassman

There really is no ethical difference between eating a cat or a chicken, a dog or a pig. — Steve-O

Love, why have you sought the horde
of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? — Hilda Doolittle

Every man should believe in something.
If not..
he would doubt everything, even himself. — Toba Beta

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. — Ian McEwan

Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop ... is beyond me! — Bill Hybels

She imagined the trade in meanings as a kind of game, in which tokens shaped like mahjong tiles were exchanged and switched. Signs moved from one world to another, clacked together, made new sequences. A man in Bolshevik Russia became virtually Chinese; a world unfolded from a paper envelope. This game existed in the borderless continent of her father's head. She could see how he concentrated: 'cher' in Russian, 'neve' in Italian, 'snow' in English, until he arrived at the sound 'xue', and then the character: the radical symbol for rain, the strokes for frozen, the little block of marks that revealed the transition from alphabets to ideograms. — Gail Jones

Because we're not what we eat. We're what we do, and what we sacrifice, and what we love. And if we choose right more often than we choose wrong, we become who we want to be. — Greg Van Eekhout

Cavall came simply and gave his heart and soul. — T.H. White

Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world. — Al Duncan

I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women. — Kim Cattrall

I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused. — T.C. Boyle

It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy. — Derrek Lee

We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do good, and they have been provided by God for the good of men: they are at hand and serve as the material, the instruments for a good use in the hand of him who knows how to use them. — Clement Of Alexandria

Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant ... The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives. — Derek Landy