Dashel Beckett Quotes & Sayings

Do not repay evil for evil or return the insults of your fellow men. Benjamin, you have been called to this, and the pathway is open for you to receive blessings beyond your own understanding. May the Lord bless and keep you. May the good Lord shine His face upon you and be gracious to you. And may the Lord lift up the expression of His face on you and give you peace. — Dale Cox

Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy ... .The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it will always be an exceptional sort of citizen who has or claims the right to rule over ten cities, and these remote and altogether alien cities ... To make all politics cosmopolitan is to create an aristocracy of globe-trotters. If your political outlook really takes in the Cannibal Islands, you depend of necessity upon a superior and picked minority of the people who have been to the Cannibal Islands; or rather of the still smaller and more select minority who have come back. — G.K. Chesterton

Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism. — Frank Prochaska

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. — Brendan Francis

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful. — Hanna Rosin

Teaching starts with Tests. — Alok Jagawat

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. — Harry S. Truman

Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions. — Robert Kiyosaki

Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you've got three other legs to stand on. — Jennifer Granholm