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.

Beth Revis

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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

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• 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

• Shakespeare, in a play, brought in a number of men saying they had suffered shipwreck in Bohemia, where there is no sea by some 100 miles.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Men
  • Sea

• 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

• I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Different

• When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Death
  • Body
  • Relationships

• Conditions impact the behaviour of people.

  

  Eliyahu Goldratt
  • People

• We won't let you down. We will work together and successfully complete this mission.

  

  Liu Yang
  • Work
  • Together

• Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

  

  William Falconer
  • Health
  • Care
  • Eating

• 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