Quotes About Bertha

#1. Bertha kept things interesting, always shaky and a little unstable

Bambi Sparkles

#2. When life hands you an ostrich...make a boa! ~Bertha

Jane Carroll

#3. The mighty bosoms of Big-Boobied Bertha had killed many a Warrior in mortal combat.

Cressida Cowell

#4. Joys are like stray cats...the more you feed them...the more you get! ~Bertha

Jane Carroll

#5. Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding expiation, if the yearning for pleasure is not at the same time a yearning for motherhood.

Arthur Schnitzler

#6. The thoughts haunted him. He hated them: they robbed him of his peace; they were alien, neither possible nor desirable. Still, he welcomed them: the only alternative- banishing Bertha from his mind-seemed inconceivable.

Irvin D. Yalom

#7. If we got caught being in grandma's smaller room without her or without another adult being there, we were surely in for a good old-fashioned ass whipping, Kunta Kinte style. Grandma Bertha didn't play that shit.

Amina

#8. Socrates: So was I.
Bertha: Are you saying you're as great as him, then?
Socrates: No, no, on the contrary, I'm assuming just the opposite!

Peter Kreeft

#9. Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

D.H. Lawrence

#10. You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father

August Strindberg

#11. December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of this year, then comes a new one. Then, what? No one knows.
Diary of Bertha Kate Gaddis who passed away 6 months later, age 78, West Lafayette, IN.

Angie Klink

#12. Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

Bertha Knight Landes

#13. One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Bertha Von Suttner

#14. To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

Rodrigo Rato

#15. In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

Bertha Knight Landes

#16. All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yolanda Adams

#17. God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God.

Sathya Sai Baba

#18. The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.

Bertha Von Suttner

#19. If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

Gary Hume

#20. Since politics - until recently - has been a man's world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

Bertha Knight Landes

#21. I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'

Spencer Boldman

#22. Everything in life is a story, baby. It's just a matter if someone tells it or not.

Joyee Flynn

#23. Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

Bertha Von Suttner

#24. I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.

Bertha Von Suttner

#25. How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.

Bertha Von Suttner

#26. I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story.

Bertha Von Suttner

#27. I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

Jean Rhys

#28. Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

Bertha Knight Landes

#29. The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

Hamid Karzai

#30. Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Bertha Von Suttner

#31. I always said I acted like a twelve-year old, so I decided to write like a twelve-year old.

Terri Bertha

#32. An announcement that my lesson for the day would be Spanish dishes, invariably brought record-breaking crowds in any city in the United States, and a demand for recipes induced me

Bertha Haffner-Ginger

#33. My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

Norman Maclean

#34. You believe in a person's permanence because humans have a tendency to stick to you when life is good. I call them honey summers. I've had enough honey summers in life to know that people leave you when winter comes.

Tarryn Fisher

#35. After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Bertha Von Suttner

#36. Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

Bertha Von Suttner

#37. In case you are wondering about the name, Yahoo stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

Amanda Eliza Bertha

#38. The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.

Bertha Von Suttner