Bel Kaufman Quotes

As for Walter—he was a man constantly beset by tiny pinpricks of fate.

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• To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Integrity
  • Election
  • Nobody

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Golf

• The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Objects
  • Acts
  • Sensory

• Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Kind

• You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Best
  • Always

• You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • You
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Walking
  • New York

• When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Myself
  • Breathe
  • Talk

• There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• 'One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.''Believers in what?''In everything.'

  

  Jack McDevitt

• But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People

• Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Long
  • Nice

• Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Nature
  • Desire

• 'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Broken

• A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Up
  • Home

• All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Money

• There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Teach

• What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • True
  • Author

• Perish that thought! No, never be it saidThat Fate itself could awe the soul of Richard.Hence, babbling dreams! you threaten here in vain!Conscience, avaunt! Richard ’s himself again!Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds to horse! away!My soul ’s in arms, and eager for the fray.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Soul
  • Horse
  • Fate

• As for Walter—he was a man constantly beset by tiny pinpricks of fate.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Fate
  • Beset
  • Walter