Top 16 Beilby Porteus Quotes
#1. Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?
Sue Monk Kidd
#2. Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express
Beilby Porteus
#3. As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
Otto Hermann Kahn
#6. Through the sequester'd vale of rural life
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.
Beilby Porteus
#7. He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
Beilby Porteus
#8. My biggest fear isn't crashing this bike at 85mph and losing my skin - it's sitting in a chair at 90 and thinking 'I wish I'd done more'
Graeme Obree
#9. The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.
Mike Lofgren
#10. If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? ... Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
Ayn Rand
#11. Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
Katherine Dunham
#13. Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
#14. But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
Beilby Porteus
#15. Personal truth differs from one person to the next, so how can truth itself be a constant? At least we can listen to each other in truth.
Jay Woodman
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