Bittgebete Quotes & Sayings

When Indian women begin the search for an Indian man, they carry a huge list of qualifications. He has to have a job. He has to be kind, intelligent, and funny. He has to dance and sing. He should know how to iron his own clothes. Braids would be nice. But as the screwed-up Indian men stagger through their lives, Indian women are forced to amend their list of qualifications. Eventually, Indian men need only to have their own teeth to get snagged. — Sherman Alexie

The boys wore jeans, or tracksuits with big ticks on them as if their clothing had been marked by a teacher who valued, above all else, conformity. — Monica Ali

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam. — Ed Bradley

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become. — Rumi

Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead. — Sue Grafton

Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, parents seek to have their children taught a great many things, and provide for their skill in the use of means for all sorts of arbitrary ends, of none of which can they determine whether it may not perhaps hereafter be an object to determine their pupil, but which it is at all events possible that he might aim at; and this anxiety is so great that they commonly neglect to form and correct their judgement on the value of the things which may be chosen as ends. — Immanuel Kant

So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh
crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be. — Jason Mraz

Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains. — Jaromir Jagr

A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows. — Anatole France

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth. — Edmund Phelps

The situation could not possibly be as dire as it seemed or they would all be dead. — Neal Stephenson

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.' — Shannen Doherty