Besteden Verb Quotes

#1. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

Kevin McCloud

#3. Stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face.

Sabina Wurmbrand

#4. I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

Moby

#5. If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.

Dick Gregory

#6. We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

John Baldacci

#7. Persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science ...
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Thomas Carlyle

#8. A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. Love affairs, in their beginnings, are all about the present. But there is a point in each
an event, an exchange, some other unseen trigger
which forces the past and the future back into focus.

Kate Morton

#10. but he had seen lots of women behave this way around Willem. They all had. Their friend Lionel used to say that Willem must have been a fisherman in a past life, because he couldn't help but attract pussy.

Hanya Yanagihara

#11. I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Bernhard Goetz

#12. The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the heart,
There will be no end to our progress.

Sri Chinmoy

#13. Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

Gautama Buddha

#14. I hoped that she knew the truth
that it wasn't her fault, or my fault, or even his fault. No matter how many times I wanted to believe it was. This was my life, and this is how it was ending.

Kami Garcia

#15. Stop documenting the moment for a second, he told me. Just be in it.

Emery Lord