James Beckwourth Quotes & Sayings

Bergman made countless masterpieces, but for one reason or another, 'Winter Light' stays closest to my heart. — Jake Paltrow

A good officer was one who accepted orders and fulfilled them, even when he disagreed. But the mark of a great officer was that he also tried to innovate and offer appropriate suggestions. — Brandon Sanderson

The Days were a clan that mighta lived long
But Ben Day's head got screwed on wrong
That boy craved dark Satan's power
So he killed his family in one nasty hour
Little Michelle he strangled in the night
Then chopped up Debby: a bloody sight
Mother Patty he saved for last
Blew off her head with a shotgun blast
Baby Libby somehow survived
But to live through that ain't much a life
- SCHOOLYARD RHYME, CIRCA 1985 — Gillian Flynn

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. — John D. Rockefeller

If she must face the fact that she was fearful, she would also face the fear and overcome it. — John Varley

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife. — John Dewey

I take refuge in the Buddha, that means I take refuge in the courage and the potential of fearlessness, of removing all the armor that covers this awakeness of mine. I am awake; I will spend my life taking this armor off. Nobody else can take it off because nobody else knows where all the little locks are, nobody else knows where it's sewed up tight, where it's going to take a lot of work to get that particular iron thread untied. — Pema Chodron

Good people are not those who lack flaws, the brave are not those who feel no fear, and the generous are not those who never feel selfish. Extraordinary people are not extraordinary because they are invulnerable to unconscious biases. They are extraordinary because they choose to do something about it. — Shankar Vedantam

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.) — Joseph Heller

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it. — Seneca The Younger

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world. — Sylvia Boorstein

No need ror quotion marks — A.N.P.

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong. — Zhuangzi