Bristol Live Quotes & Sayings

It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay. — Wayne Allard

Those who prosper by thievery, thuggery, or by ruining another, have chosen to live on the devil's dime. — Bailey Bristol

Never wound a snake; kill it. — Harriet Tubman

An economist is a man that can tell you ... what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too. — Will Rogers

The period that I would anoint as the golden era in American journalism was from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s. It had three separate major strands: the Civil Rights struggle over integration of schools and public facilities in the South; the Vietnam War; and Watergate. — Anonymous

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed. — Tippi Hedren

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives. — Nathaniel Branden

Well of course it did and it would have made any man feel just as I did! I told Mama - perfectly politely! that it was enough to make me jump on the Bristol coach, and ship aboard the first packet bound for America, or anywhere else that Bristol boats sail to,because I would rather live in the Antipodes than have Cordelia hanging around my neck... — Georgette Heyer

The Supreme Court could have said, You're just these fringe women in combat boots. But they didn't. — Ariel Levy

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had. — Aziz Ansari

It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus — Stefan Molyneux

Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives. — Steve Jobs

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries. — Alex Stein

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. — Lauren Bacall

I never knew him. We both knew this place,
apparently, this literal small backwater,
looked at it long enough to memorize it,
our years apart. How strange. And it's still loved,
or its memory is (it must have changed a lot).
Our visions coincided--'visions' is
too serious a word--our looks, two looks:
art 'copying from life' and life itself,
life and the memory of it so compressed
they've turned into each other. Which is which?
Life and the memory of it cramped,
dim, on a piece of Bristol board,
dim, but how live, how touching in detail
--the little that we get for free,
the little of our earthly trust. Not much.
About the size of our abidance
along with theirs: the munching cows,
the iris, crisp and shivering, the water
still standing from spring freshets,
the yet-to-be-dismantled elms, the geese. — Elizabeth Bishop

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that. — Andrew Scott

Race is not, and will not be an issue in this case. — Robert Shapiro

If a mistake is made the honorable thing to do is to own up to it.' Of course I was talking about Levi owning up to his mistakes. But as I finish this book, I realize it applies equally to myself, and to all of us as we try but fail to live up to the standards we know are right. Our inability and unwillingness to keep the standards don't make the standards any less valuable and good. — Bristol Palin