Dearly Bethany Quotes & Sayings

What is honour, my dear, when you have nothing to eat? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thought of personal loss or discredit. Certainly that was my conviction back in the summer of 1968. Tim O'Brien: a secret hero. The Lone Ranger. If the stakes ever became high enough - if the evil were evil enough, if the good were good enough - I would simply tap a secret reservoir of courage that had been accumulating inside me over the years. Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in finite quantities, like an inheritance, and by being frugal and stashing it away and letting it earn interest, we steadily increase our moral capital in preparation for that day when the account must be drawn down. It was a comforting theory. It dispensed with all those bothersome little acts of daily courage; it offered hope and grace to the repetitive coward; it justified the past while amortizing the future. — Tim O'Brien

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. — Ellen Glasgow

glassblowing?" Noah shook his head. "My — Claire Cook

Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him. — Heather Anastasiu

Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs. — John Stuart Mill

Even though the sewer pipelines reach far into our houses with their tentacles, they are carefully hidden from view and we are happily ignorant of the invisible Venice of shit underlying our bathrooms, bedrooms, dance halls, and parliaments. — Milan Kundera

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition. — Mark Steyn

I like to build bridges ... not walls. — Oscar Arias Sanchez

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes. — Amy Tan

Your ego is a scary beast. It should have its own name. We could call it something frightening like Darth Yummy. — Nichole Chase

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers. — Ronald Fisher

I'm thinking we should test your theory ... see if my voice really is all you need. — Sarah Grimm

I'm the granddaddy of this side. I'm the oldest person playing in the team, so I've got a mentoring role. I've been around the tracks and achieved a few things. I try to make sure that the younger players reach their full potential, and stay on the right track. — Filo Tiatia

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. — P.G. Wodehouse