Erzs Bethelyi Quotes & Sayings

The damned had been given that insight which makes hardship so easy to bear - the absolute and certain knowledge that things could be worse. — Terry Pratchett

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy. — Christopher Cross

When you're a god, your emotions are contagious - other people can catch them. When people stood near Spider on a day that he was this happy, their worlds would seem a little brighter. If he hummed a song, other people around him would start humming, in key, like something from a musical. Of course, if he yawned, a hundred people nearby would yawn, and when he was miserable it spread like a damp river-mist, making the world even gloomier for everyone caught up in it. It wasn't anything he did; it was something that he was. — Neil Gaiman

I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself. — Andrew Sullivan

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church. — Gregory Benford

I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots. — Rush Limbaugh

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all! — Robert Orben

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ. — J.I. Packer

I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith. — Tamara Ecclestone

With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people. — Adolf Hitler

Na razrusha'ya. E'ya razrushost." (Translation): I am not ruined. I am ruination. — Leigh Bardugo

Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here in public auctions, in a transparent way. When you do real estate development outside Beijing and Shanghai it is good to have "guanxi" - good relations within the local government. — Zhang Xin