Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
Quotes to Explore
-
Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
-
I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
-
Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
-
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
-
This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.
-
For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
-
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
-
My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
-
We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
-
We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
-
Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
-
I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
-
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
-
Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
-
That house with its remoteness and the islands going down like soft gongs all the time into the amazing blue, and I shall never,never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. It was pure gold. But then of course ...youth does mean happiness, it does mean love, and that's something you can't get over.
-
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-
The national Log Cabin Republicans are ridiculous. They’re not conservative at all. I don’t even think they’re gay - they’re bi (partisan). GOProud is comprised of real conservatives who happen to be gay. (Same with the Texas LCRs, for whom I’ve been signing books for years.)
-
Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
-
I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.
-
Be genuinely grateful for the success of others. A generous spirit is the surest sign of a kind heart.
-
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
-
Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.
-
And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.
-
They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
