Birkhead Mountain Quotes & Sayings

She was strength and power and so many things he'd pretended for twelve years he didn't miss, didn't need. — Natalie J. Damschroder

We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures ... — David Rutley

In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them. — Michelle Erickson

Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas. — Dan Jenkins

I think you're wrong."
"Think what you like. — Robert Jackson Bennett

When fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble. — Paulo Coelho

The very concept of trying to 'teach' a lover things feels patronising, incongruous and plain sinister. If we truly loved someone, there could be no talk of wanting him or her to change. Romanticism is clear on this score: true love should involve an acceptance of a partner's whole being. It is this fundamental commitment to benevolence that makes the early months of love so moving. Within the new relationship, our vulnerabilities are treated with generosity. Our shyness, awkwardness and confusion endear (as they did when we were children) rather than generate sarcasm or complain; the trickier sides of us are interpreted solely through the filter of compassion.
From these moments, a beautiful yet challenging, and even reckless, conviction develops: that to be properly loved must always mean being endorsed for all that one is. — Alain De Botton