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

• Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Happiness
  • Breathe
  • Solitudes

• There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

  

  Mickey Hart
  • Love
  • Uplifting

• There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Fight
  • Girls

• I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain't gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • King
  • Wanted
  • Survived

• Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

  

  Chip Heath
  • Quality
  • Decision
  • Choices

• I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Survived
  • Tougher