Bette Davis Quotes

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Bette Davis

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• Name of Love

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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Great
  • Women
  • Look

• If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Brother
  • Year
  • Filmmaker

• The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Want
  • Earth

• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Think
  • Pen

• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Desire
  • Responsibility
  • Pain

• People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Happy
  • Benefits
  • Recognition

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Music
  • Different

• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Trees
  • Plants
  • Gardening

• Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Today
  • Imagination
  • Fruit

• It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Time
  • Break
  • Inside

• I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Me
  • Saying
  • Newspapers

• When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Situation

• Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Different
  • You

• Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Religion
  • Search

• Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word "myth" only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.

  

  Adam Kirsch
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Poet

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

  

  Maimonides
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Confused

• For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.

  

  Bobby Sager
  • Religion
  • Human Beings
  • Investment

• Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Religion
  • Inhumanities
  • Name of Love