Beth Revis Quotes

I am surrounded by death, inside and out, and all it does is remind me of how futile everything is, everything ever was.

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• Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Vision
  • United States
  • Truck

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • High
  • Acting

• If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Eye

• I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Family
  • River
  • Cook

• To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • History
  • Guy

• It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.

  

  Oscar Levant

• I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Art
  • Faith

• It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Weird
  • Holiday
  • Friday

• Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Community

• We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Air

• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

  

  Ira Glass

• Callas? She was pure electricity.

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • She

• An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Men
  • Death
  • Enemy

• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  

  Leo Rosten
  • Bad

• Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Moments

• Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.

  

  Edward Young
  • Time
  • Death
  • Heaven

• Grim death.

  

  Philip Massinger
  • Death

• Human beings will never evolve to higher creatures if we are constantly restricted by rules and regulations.

  

  Newton Lee
  • Rules
  • Human being
  • Regulations

• I am surrounded by death, inside and out, and all it does is remind me of how futile everything is, everything ever was.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Death
  • Remind
  • Futile