Charmy Bee Quotes & Sayings

I'm not trying to - What do teenagers say nowadays?" he asked my grandmother."Get all up in her biznez," Nana said.Without cracking a smile."That's right," he replied. "We're not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali. — Gena Showalter

[On plastic surgery:] When I die, God won't know me. There are no two parts of my body the same age. — Phyllis Diller

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. — H.G.Wells

Others
as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders
serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few
as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men
serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part ... — Henry David Thoreau

Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are. — Robert Jordan

The best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university. — Uzoma Nnadi

From outside comes a light tinkling, fragments of glass, perhaps, falling into the streets. It sounds both beautiful and strange, as though gemstones were raining from the sky. — Anthony Doerr

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. — William Shakespeare

I'd see the bus pass every day ... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world. — Rosa Parks

Man is pre-eminently a creative animal, predestined to strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering - that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance. — Gene Hackman

Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess that my scheme is still a mere dream, and I do not shut my eyes to the fact that so long as I alone believe it to be possible, it is virtually impossible ... The scheme in question is the cutting of a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. This has been thought of from the earliest historical times, and for that very reason is looked upon as impracticable. Geographical dictionaries inform us indeed that the project would have been executed long ago but for insurmountable obstacles. [On his inspiration for the Suez Canal.] — Ferdinand De Lesseps

do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves. — Desmond Tutu