Bette Greene Quotes

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

Bette Greene

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• Test Of Love

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• Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Sad
  • Last
  • Walls

• A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Feeling
  • Moments
  • Boy

• I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Drop
  • Street Corners

• We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards.

  

  Mick Mulvaney
  • Long
  • Forgotten
  • Backwards

• Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

  

  Paul Muldoon
  • Words
  • Things
  • Connect

• I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

  

  Eugene Levy
  • Played
  • Don't Believe

• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Men
  • High
  • Singing

• I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.

  

  Lara Jean Chorostecki
  • Time
  • Passion
  • Animals

• He said people are starting to wonder about us,

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Starting

• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Gold
  • Brave

• In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Finance
  • Shillings

• We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Crying

• You just hope, if you make things as I do, that they can make their way in the world and have some longevity.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Hope
  • Longevity

• I could play through anything. But just thinking about I have kids, longevity, I probably would have made more of a conscious effort not to hit the floor, but at the end of the day in the playoffs, you can't play that way. You just have to play and give it your all.

  

  Rajon Rondo
  • Effort
  • Conscious
  • Longevity

• It depends on the story and the filmmaker. And it depends on the character, and the heart and soul of the person that I see on the page, and if it resonates with something that I think I can summon in myself.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Character

• Longevity can't be the only test of love.

  

  Bette Greene
  • Longevity
  • Test Of Love