Bette Davis Quotes

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

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• One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

  

  Dan Savage

• There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Earth
  • Plato
  • Socrates

• The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

  

  John Milton
  • Seraphim
  • Helmed
  • Cherubim

• History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Winning
  • Class
  • Possession

• When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Desire
  • Circumstances
  • Winds

• We've always written from personal experiences.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Experiences
  • Written

• We finished our last ball game with Iowa and were on an off-week and then we had to travel a significant distance to get to Hawaii. So we prepared for a certain number of days, let them have a couple days off, came back and traveled to Hawaii.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Game
  • Travel
  • Distance

• There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • World
  • Magic
  • Miracle

• There's quite a bit of pressure, but it's a lot of fun, it's enjoyable. I think one of the biggest things is being organised, having things written down. Keep the players aware of the other teams, what the other teams' tendencies are, and just to keep on top of things.

  

  Gerad Adams
  • Pressure
  • Players
  • Teams

• What I think it's important to recognize in today's world is that all of our societies are multiethnic, multi-religious and multicultural. And that is a positive thing. That's a richness, and also strength. But we also have to recognize that, for those societies to be harmonious, there is a lot of the investment that needs to be made in social cohesion and inclusivity. But the important thing to recognize, and particularly Europe, most of the terrorist attacks are not done by people that came from the outside. They are homegrown.

  

  Antonio Guterres
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

  

  Terrence Malick
  • Pictures

• The farther down the road you go the tougher they get and I live at the end of the road!

  

  Edward L. Morse
  • Road
  • Tougher
  • Farther

• But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Friend
  • Blood
  • Clever

• I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Survived
  • Tougher