Vassiliki Betty Quotes & Sayings

The servants of God ... whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul. — Thomas Aquinas

A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions. — Alan J. Pakula

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration. — Tracy Morgan

It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm. — Donald Hall

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues. — Jim Fowler

Problem with an old friend who is too busy:
he always perceives you as if never changed. — Toba Beta

How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it. — Vivian Gornick

I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward. — Michael Gove

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.' — William Osler

Acercar - to approach — Alex Forero

You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones. — Jane Austen