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.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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• Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Like
  • Angry
  • Two

• 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?'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Same
  • Speech

• 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.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
  • Differences

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Proud
  • Sun
  • 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.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Home
  • Car
  • Shoes

• 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.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Important
  • Country
  • Education

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.

  

  Karl Marx

• 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.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Time
  • House
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 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.)

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Real
  • Gay
  • Texas

• Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • May
  • Financial
  • Obstacles

• I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Parents
  • Lawyer

• I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

  

  Don Lemon
  • People

• I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Art
  • Wonder
  • Creativity

• I've gotten burnt the last few years on a couple of little independent films where you get paid nothing, you work your ass off, there's no marketing budget except you going on every talk show. But you're seeing it all over. I mean, these disasters at NBC, with the morning show.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Work
  • Independent Films
  • Marketing budget

• 'No, Madam,' cried I, '-only-only I did not know that gentleman,-and so,-and so I thought-I intended-I-' Overpowered by all that had passed, I had not strength to make my mortifying explanation; - my spirits quite failed me, and I burst into tears.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Tears
  • Gentleman

• Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

  

  Ahmed Kathrada
  • Emotions
  • Negative
  • Suffer

• 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.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Tears
  • Emotions
  • Burned