Top 17 Quotes About Being Besotted
#1. Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.
Christopher Hitchens
#2. Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.
Judy Blume
#3. In battle, it is not the strongest or the bravest or those with the greater numbers who win. Victory belongs to the side that best understands the price of defeat.
Shatrujeet Nath
#4. There were lots of words which had fallen out of my vocabulary, living abroad so long.
Henry Miller
#5. America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
P. J. O'Rourke
#6. Don't ask me about prayer rocks
Anyplace I put my head is a prayer rock.
Don't talk of direction
All six directions face Him.
Gardens, flames, nightingale,
whirling dance, and brotherhood
Throw all these away
and throw yourself into His love.
Rumi
#7. I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.
Herbert Hoover
#8. Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination
the usefulness of toys
and strictly celebrates consumerism.
Armond White
#9. Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!
Pope Francis
#10. More polar bears live in Canada than in the rest of the world combined, which raises the question, Why the hell did we choose the beaver as our national emblem? We could have had Nanuk of the North, Lord of the Arctic, as our symbol. Instead we got stuck with Squirrelly McTeeth. Sheesh.
Will Ferguson
#11. I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.
Anthony Bourdain
#12. For every finish-line tape a runner breaks
complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras
there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.
Grete Waitz
#13. Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#14. Maia did not want to wake up. Sleep lay on her like a dead bear and she had no strength to struggle out from under it.
Kim McDougall
#15. Once you've crossed over into that realm of nothingness, your story only really stays in the minds of those closest to you. And when they too vanish ...
Douglas Kennedy
#16. In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.
John Kuypers
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