Bissingers Quotes & Sayings

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen. — Girolamo Savonarola

For I could not want her now, more than I could a lover.
But I could not want a lover, more than I want freedom. — Sarah Waters

Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our over compensatory reactions in regard — C.B. Smith

I thought about the word 'profile' and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we're looking at a person's profile online, or say a newspaper is writing a profile on someone, and we assume it's the whole them we're seeing. But when a photographer takes a picture of a profile, you're only seeing half the face ... It's never the way you would remember seeing them. You never remember someone 'in profile.' You remember them looking you in the eye, or talking to you. You remember an image that the subject could never see in a mirror, because you are the mirror. A profile, photographically, is perpendicular to the person you know. — David Levithan

Hours before the Georgian invasion, Russia had been working to secure a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a renunciation of force by both Georgia and South Ossetians. The statement that could have averted bloodshed was blocked by western countries. — Sergei Lavrov

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter ... one must paint its atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni

And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans. — Irene Nemirovsky

One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian ... one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend. — J. William Fulbright

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. — Oscar Wilde

If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost. — Miley Cyrus

Probably the hardest thing in the world for a man is the simple observation and acceptance of what is. Always we warp our pictures with what we hoped, expected, or were afraid of. In Russia we saw many things that did not agree with what we had expected, and for this reason it is very good to have photographs, because a camera has no preconceptions, it simply sets down what it sees. — John Steinbeck

The stewardship of influence. What have you done with influence? — Johnny Hunt

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it. — William H. Macy

Does the business have a consistent operating history? — Warren Buffett

The future would come, full of war and uncertainty, but I would not be facing it alone. I had love and work, friends and a people. I had a place to stand. — Rachel Hartman