Bismarchia Quotes & Sayings

Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better. — Martin Luther King Jr.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity. — Hesiod

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. — George Orwell

Mine was something along the lines of 'This is who I am, and this is the level at which I'm going to present myself, I feel fine, and if you don't like it then you're more than welcome to look away, thank you very much.' I decided, quite simply, not to care very much at all. As long as my rear-end and stomach were hidden from the public gaze, then I considered any outfit a roaring success.
People are either going to like the look of me, or they're not. And apart from remaining vaguely clean and healthy, there's not very much I can do to control that. Is an eye-lash tint, a facial and the right handbag really going to make all that much difference?
With this decision, I think I've spared myself a lot of misery. You may look at me and see a slightly frayed, wool-clad woman with an inexplicably hefty rucksack, but I look in the mirror and simply give thanks for all I've opted out of. — Miranda Hart

I didn't feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones. — Jennifer Weiner

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment. — Ashley Judd

Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock. — Roman Payne

When God gives you an inch, don't take a mile. — Giovannino Guareschi

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him. — Calvin Trillin

The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements ... But a God of love and consolation. — Blaise Pascal

One of the principal evils in life, according to Buddhism, is 'repugnance' or hatred. Repugnance (pratigha) is explained as 'ill-will with regard to living beings, with regard to suffering and with regard to things pertaining to suffering. Its function is to produce a basis for unhappy states and bad conduct.'1 Thus it is wrong to be impatient at suffering. Being impatient or angry at suffering does not remove it. On the contrary, it adds a little more to one's troubles, and aggravates and exacerbates a situation already disagreeable. What is necessary is not anger or impatience, but the understanding of the question of suffering, how it comes about, and how to get rid of it, and then to work accordingly with patience, intelligence, determination and energy. — Walpola Rahula

We are all great beings ... I think people have lost the sense of that. — Pat Barry

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. — Jim Harrison