Betsy Hodges Quotes

A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

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• If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Patience
  • Strength
  • Welcome

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Humanity

• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Good
  • Job
  • Quality

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Different
  • Roles
  • System

• Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Home
  • Today
  • Technology

• The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Never
  • Facts

• I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Toronto

• Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Journey

• I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Business
  • Democrat
  • Progressive

• I've always been very inspired by fashion. I've always been a big fan of style.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Always

• I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Good
  • Moderation
  • Temperance

• I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Job
  • Hate
  • Attention

• Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Law
  • Weapon
  • Wished

• I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That's my friend, but every time I'm around her, I get shy.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Time
  • Song
  • Friend

• Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Life

• The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

  

  E. M. Delafield
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Friend