Beth Revis Quotes

Who are the real monsters?

Beth Revis

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• How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Cutting
  • Without
  • Come

• We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Successful

• I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Heaven

• As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • I Can
  • Museums

• If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

  

  C. Wagner
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Violence

• I accept myself for who I am as a woman and a mother and this has given me the most confidence.

  

  Lais Ribeiro
  • Mother
  • Confidence

• When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • Government
  • Independence

• Without going outside, you may know the whole world!

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Know
  • Outside

• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History
  • Challenge
  • Revolution

• I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Doctrine

• Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Treasury
  • Everlasting

• No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could firgive? But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything. You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, "Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are revealed!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Art
  • Eye
  • Brother

• We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

  

  George Washington
  • Fall
  • Humans
  • Perfection

• In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more than we can prove, or we have to use vague and general terms which hide the essential point, instead of bringing it out. The history of electrical theories furnishes a good example.

  

  Arthur Schuster
  • Prove
  • Point
  • Expressions

• We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Survival
  • Monsters
  • Fascination

• The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

  

  William P. Young
  • Christianity
  • Monsters
  • Evangelical

• Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Silly

• Who are the real monsters?

  

  Beth Revis
  • Monsters