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

• You can't even stand without risking to fall.

  

  Nick Vujicic
  • Fall
  • Stand
  • Risking

• 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

• Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Science
  • Spirit

• John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.

  

  Eve Golden
  • Voice
  • Jump
  • Silent

• I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Survived
  • Tougher