Byrde Crystal Quotes & Sayings

The only time to believe any kind of rating is when it shows you at the top. — Bob Hope

Librarians are the bedrock of the public domain and the defenders of our fundamental right to access knowledge. — Carl Malamud

Dogs: the best friend you will ever have that pees on your couch and stays your friend. — Dana Gould

The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die. — Ameen Rihani

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. — John Milton

I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me. — Anthony Hopkins

Deuteronomy's notion of tithes - that for two out of three years surplus is shared broadly with the disadvantaged, and in the third year is given to them outright - is sound economics when seen in light of conceptions of redistributive economics in primitive societies. In modern capitalist societies, surplus earnings are placed into savings, and insurance policies are taken out to hedge against various forms of adversity. The laws of tithing may be construed as another element in a program of primitive insurance. In a premodern society, A will give some of his surplus in a good year to B, who may have fallen on hard times in exchange for B's commitment to reciprocate should their roles one day be reversed. — Joshua A. Berman

Bennet was a wonderful friend and, admittedly, a wonderful specimen of a man, but she worried over his friendliness. — Charlie N. Holmberg