Bessie Smiths Quotes

#1. You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.

Tommy Lasorda

#2. I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

Joseph Heller

#3. I've always been naturally thin.

Robin Gibb

#4. Note from the authors: Yes, we have lost our minds. Be forewarned: You will lose yours too.

Mauerer, Wolfgang

#5. While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.

John Calvin

#6. Is it not a noble farce, where kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

Michel De Montaigne

#7. Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.

Laurence Overmire

#8. No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there's nothing else to do in a place like this but cut your ear off.

Philip Kerr

#9. Every atom of me and every atom of you.

Philip Pullman

#10. It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.

Charles Spurgeon