Beebe Quotes

#1. Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

E. M. Forster

#2. tourists. "She oughtn't really to go at all," said Mr. Beebe, as they watched her from the window, "and she knows it. I put it down to too much Beethoven.

Various

#3. Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.

Mike Beebe

#4. I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.

Ruth Beebe Hill

#5. The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

William Beebe

#6. When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.

William Beebe

#7. As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.

Ruth Beebe Hill

#8. It was very controversial actually, because basically, Lion In The Grass was also a course that you were receiving college credit for. So it was like he was taking a class, but then the class which also has a teacher and everything, was competing with bands that weren't in classes.

Chris Baio

#9. (Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.

Victor Borge

#10. You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at the risk of affecting any of the quality standards and educational opportunities for any child, regardless of where they live and regardless of what the size of their school is.

Mike Beebe

#11. I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

William Beebe

#12. High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggest dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven.

Lucius Beebe

#13. A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

Lucius Beebe

#14. The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

John Ruskin

#15. That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. Earth has few secrets from the birds.

William Beebe

#17. George Jessel's newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town's paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.

Lucius Beebe

#18. ... ... but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance

C. William Beebe

#19. To be a naturalist is better than to be a king.

William Beebe

#20. Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

William Beebe

#21. Declan said, do you wanna bleed out or fuck me? Not sure I made the right choice. Her ears were buzzing so loudly, she had to shout to hear herself.

Lizzy Ford

#22. The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

William Beebe

#23. A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

William Beebe

#24. If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.

Paul Rand

#25. I try to be consistent, so I practice yoga and Pilates to help keep my body and mind balanced.

Miranda Kerr

#26. These Sutras are reminiscent of the Four Noble Truths of Lord Buddha: the misery of the world, the cause of misery, the removal of that misery, and the method used to remove it. Patanjali tells us that pain can be avoided. He further tells us that its cause is ignorance. (115)

Swami Satchidananda

#27. Before we have the complete solution of the whys and wherefores of herding and flocking and schooling, there must be a great deal of uncomfortable climbing and diving, hiding in unpleasant places, getting wet and hot and cramped and weary.

William Beebe

#28. Peace means loyalty to self ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.

Ruth Beebe Hill

#29. What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.

Lucius Beebe

#30. Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably.

Jim Rohn

#31. New York ... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

Lucius Beebe

#32. Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

J.K. Rowling

#33. The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

Rand Paul

#34. The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.

William Beebe

#35. Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?

Rand Paul

#36. I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

Nick Wechsler

#37. The added cost of higher wages is offset by savings from lower labor turnover and higher labor productivity.

Anonymous

#38. It was a strange four-sided triangle, with Charlotte (in some sense) the 'other woman' in two different relationships with the same man.

Howard D. Beebe