Befits Quotes

#1. If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it ... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

Aristotle.

#2. Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

William Safire

#4. Midlife crises are the best-funded stage of rebellion, because, finally, the rebel himself can lavish the amount of money he feels befits the depth of his self-pity.

Alex Sheshunoff

#5. There are no singular tales. A life in solitude is a life rushing to death. But a blind man will never rush; he but feels his way, as befits an uncertain world.

Steven Erikson

#6. Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

John F. Kennedy

#7. I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people.

Ronald Reagan

#8. He (The 4th Doctor) concludes, as befits his Bohemian heroism, that the quest itself fulfils the quest - to travel is better than to arrive, and taking part is more triumphant than winning.

Philip MacDonald

#9. Each one of us has a duty to Allah and a role that befits him - and we must remember that He (the Exalted) alone is worthy to be served.

Abdul Malik Mujahid

#10. Pazhuvetarayar got a welcome that befitted the treasurer of the kingdom. You got a welcome that befits a true warrior.

Sumeetha Manikandan

#11. Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

Johannes Kepler

#12. Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

Sophocles

#13. Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

David Liederman

#14. I'll tell you a story, ( ... ) A story about books, dragons and roses, as befits the date, but above all, a story about shadows and ashes, as befits the times ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.

Evgeny Morozov

#16. Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

Silius Italicus

#17. Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

Francis Of Assisi

#18. Blind is his love and best befits the dark- Benvolio (in Romeo and Juliet)

William Shakespeare

#19. The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

Shashi Tharoor

#20. Djinn," she said. "We go to review the troops. Clothe me as befits a queen."
"Silks and satins?" he asked, eyes sparkling like sapphires. "White brocade?"
"Armor," she said. "And flame.

Elizabeth Bear

#21. Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

Honore De Balzac

#22. They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief

Isabel Allende

#23. I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.

Karl Pearson

#24. Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.

Maya Angelou

#25. Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you. Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.

Aristotle.

#26. Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Jean De La Bruyere

#27. Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.

Teju Cole

#28. The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.

Dalai Lama XIV

#29. Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is about the same as advice for living with a plumber or a refrigerator salesperson.

Clyde Edgerton

#30. This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.

David Almond

#31. Remember this: you must always be growing in the gospel and your knowledge of it. It is not Christianity 101, but Christianity from A to Z. You have not mastered the gospel, nor will you master it, but it will master you!

Paul Washer

#32. A happy childhood is hard to overcome.

Marty Rubin

#33. Oddly enough, I don't find myself concerned with 'impossible.' It's an enormous relief to know that I'm not having delusions. Nothing real, impossible or not, could be as frightening as that.

Elaine Cunningham

#34. Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.

Ted Turner