Betas Quotes

#1. I wouldn't necessarily say that 'Alpha House' or 'Betas' embodied a particular vision of Amazon of the kind of brand or programming they were gonna do. I think those were the first lucky creators who hit it right for them.

Jill Soloway

#2. (Of course there are gay Betas: the Beta Male boyfriend is highly prized in the gay community because you can teach him how to dress yet you can remain relatively certain that he will never develop a fashion sense or be more fabulous than you.)

Christopher Moore

#3. No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.

Warren Buffett

#4. The gamelan created in the listener a brain wave beyond all alphas and betas and thetas, a brain wave that paralyzed the normal channels of thought and forced new ones to grow outside them, in the untouched regions of the mind, like parallel blood vessels that form to accommodate a damaged heart.

Janet Fitch

#5. Alpha Males may lead the armies of the world, but it's the Betas who actually get the shit blowed up.

Christopher Moore

#6. Ex-jocks, like all jocks, never back down from a good fight. Jocks are alphas (or betas, aspiring) and animals.

A.D. Aliwat

#7. We will go Awful and die together. But we will do it as free Betas. Not as puppets of the humans.

Rachel Cohn

#8. To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Agatha Christie

#9. Do you have any idea how creepy that is, that you were in love with my mother and you're so ... all over me?

Lili St. Crow

#10. People dont care what you know until they know what you care

John C. Maxwell

#11. We may love to say many things, but if these are not uttered in the Holy Spirit it is better to say nothing. The flesh can conjure up many plans and methods and be full of expectations. The righteousness of the flesh is as abhorrent as its sin we must always maintain God's view of the flesh.

Watchman Nee

#12. My parents were marvelously educated people.

Stephen Fry

#13. As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.

Wayne Dyer

#14. I lit the candles and said out loud, "what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?" And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.

Paula Heller Garland

#15. Beneath the conversations and silences and reconnecting intimacy, I tried to reconcile the adult Hardy had become with the boy I had known and longed for. It troubled me to realize they weren't the same ... but of course I wasn't the same either.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed [..] ...

Robert B. Laughlin

#17. Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#18. You do not have to be The fastest starter. Just be a starter! You will, without fail, Reach your destination-sun.

Sri Chinmoy

#19. Can you see God? You haven't seen him? I've never seen the wind.
I see the effects of the wind, but I've never seen the wind. There's a mystery to it.

Billy Graham