William Beebe Quotes
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
William Beebe
Quotes to Explore
Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
Zooey Deschanel
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
Patrick Henry
With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
Zack Wamp
When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
Hamza Yusuf
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
Barbara Ehrenreich
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
Bertrand Russell
I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these cliches of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal pricks and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
Dizzy Gillespie
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
Dorothy Dunnett
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
William Feather
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
William Beebe
