Top 100 Quotes About Bess
#1. Whatever is going to kill me will kill me and it will be mine.
Gabby Bess
#2. Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being
being quiet, being grateful.
Bess Myerson
#3. Yeah, see, and that proves my point. What killed Housini? A stupid accident. But for one moment of stupidity, he'd have grown old with his Bess and been happy as a big in shit. Notice I ain't young, and if I die, old Cletus would kick my ass for leaving him all alone down here. (Jack)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#5. If I can't see stories in the lives of the people around me,--I just couldn't see them anywhere. If I can't see drama in humanity near me, I guess I couldn't detect it in humans far away.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#6. ...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#7. Juliana behaved as if she was performing for an unknown, ever-present viewer
Gabby Bess
#8. Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart ... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#9. I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
Bess Myerson
#10. Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#11. Bess and I had a talk. January 1919. Everything flowed from that talk, that moment. Everything. Look back on your life and see if you can pinpoint the moment when everything changed. If you can't? That means you haven't had your momemt yet, and you better hold on to your ass, it's coming.
J.R. Moehringer
#12. I'm much more conspicuous having long hair than I will be with it short.
Bess Truman
#13. ...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...?
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#14. It won't be long,' said Philippa cheerfully, her mother's ring in her voice. 'You know what Bess says. There's nothing in this world a drop of aqua-vitae in a sheep's bladder won't cure. Stop the Somervilles with a knife! It needs artillery.' And she blew her nose hard.
Dorothy Dunnett
#15. Juliana imagined her funeral: a formless crowd of people in a trivial location, chatting amongst themselves, saying things like, "Oh thank God. Finally.
Gabby Bess
#16. You have, to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden, - why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#17. Why does everything eventually become terrible?
Gabby Bess
#18. And now Abbie had the new experience of attempting to keep another person courageous. It was more trying than to keep up her own spirits. Why must she always be strong for other people?
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#19. Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.
Bess Truman
#20. She imagined the universe as a giant sad thing
that consistently felt alienated by itself because it was too large and too sad for anyone
to possibly understand it. Jane felt bad for the universe.
Maybe the universe needed her friends more than she did.
Gabby Bess
#21. We don't know those bones but I know what it feels like to know a dead girl. Her text messages are in my phone. I don't look at them but I keep them there. It seems fucked up to delete a dead girl's texts. It seems pointless. She is already gone.
Gabby Bess
#22. I was born on Delaware Street. We have never desired another home.
Bess Truman
#23. Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.
Bess Truman
#24. Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.
Bess Myerson
#25. There's just something about you, Bess. You're sweeter than the aroma of the blueberry muffin I devoured with you, prettier than the sun setting over the ocean back home, and tangier than the lemons you squeeze into your water.
Rachel Blaufeld
#27. A human brain is encased in a skull and each human exists in separete body so it seems like there is always going to be a feeling of disconnect. One human being will never completely understand what another human is thinking or feeling
Gabby Bess
#28. When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.
Audra McDonald
#29. You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#31. Do you think he's going to hurt Sam?" Bess asked. "I don't know. But it sounds like that's on the table.
Carolyn Keene
#32. You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.
Bess Myerson
#33. Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.
Carolyn Keene
#34. I am made of cobweb that tears at a touch. But you, Bess, have fiber like the great seines that seldom break no matter their burden,yet if they do they can be mended again and again.
Anya Seton
#35. Paige had a sadness that was so desperate that it could not yet turn into anger.
Gabby Bess
#36. People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.
Bess Myerson
#37. Many hands were willing to perform the last tender ministrations. It is characteristic of the small town and rural districts. Sympathy there takes concrete form. It becomes cakes and cinnamon rolls and sitting up nights, husking corn and washing dishes and closing the eyes of the neighboring dead.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#38. ...Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#39. [When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.
Bess Truman
#40. I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
Bess Truman
#41. Call the fire department," I said, trying hard to stay calm.
"On it." Bess said, digging into her pocket. "I'll text 911."
"Don't text, call!" I said, feeling my heart pounding in the chest.
Carolyn Keene
#42. Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#44. The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#45. I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.
Davone Bess
#46. ...Uncle Harry Wentworth's dollar was turned deep under the sod. But though the sun shone on it and the rain fell, nothing ever came from it, - not a green thing nor a singing thing nor a human soul.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#47. But we can't impose our own goals, wishes, or help on anyone. We can only teach, support, and love. We give them more opportunities, more choices. Then we love them regardless of the choices they make, hoping that they will learn to make better ones in the future.
Stacey Bess
#48. Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#49. In vanity there is a certain confidence and self-assurance that is unattractive in a young girl and is met with every attempt to be suppressed immediately.
Gabby Bess
#50. This building fool could only be Bess of Hardwicke, a woman whose name is seldom seen in print without the word "redoubtable" in front of it. I wondered if anyone ever called her redoubtable to her face. I redoubted it.
JoAnn Spears
#51. I wouldn't be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.
Gabby Bess
#52. Aunt Grace was leaving ... Looking after her a moment, Laura had another feeling of tenderness toward her. How we live our lives side by side with those whom we never know or understand.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#53. Ella held herself rigidly against all emotion until she arrived at the dark haven of her room. Then she threw herself across her bed and cried because life was such a tragic thing.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#54. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.
Davone Bess
#55. First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.
Karen DeCrow
#57. I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.
Bess Myerson
#58. I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
Bess Myerson
#59. ...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#61. It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
Bess Truman
#62. I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.
Maya Angelou
#63. It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#64. Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#65. Humans are queer. A man, living and well, is ignored or criticized. Dying or dead, he is noticed and praised. Death sheds a temporary glamour over the poorest soul. It is as though in dying, he has accomplished something which life never gave him.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#66. I ... you mean me?"
"Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meant
you.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#67. I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
Bess Truman
#69. The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#70. Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.
Bess Truman
#72. Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ...
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#73. And standing there ... old Abbie Deal began to cry. They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#74. I close my eyes to the ability
to inhabit four places
in long enough intervals
to miss them all.
Gabby Bess
#75. You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
Bess Truman
#76. I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.
Bess Truman
#77. Anger and shame laced with loneliness spread throughout her, heating her to the core. Self-pity wasn't something Bess would normally succumb to, but things in the past few months had fallen apart, and there was no one there to help pick up the pieces.
Inger Iversen
#78. Bonnie Jean said, "You don't understand. Daddy's taking us away. To Nebraska." Bess Hartman looked at the mother,
Truman Capote
#79. 'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial.
Robert Gottlieb
#80. How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.
Thomas Hood
#81. The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Bess Myerson
#82. It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.
Bess Truman
#83. I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.
Bess Myerson
#84. What's the worst that could happen?"
"Don't say that!" Bess and Corwin yelled at the same time.
"You two are so superstitious.
Georgette St. Clair
#85. I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.
Bess Truman
#86. What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,
every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working to help make the prairie nice.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#87. Look at this existence. This pathetic, fallible, wonderful body," you can say rhetorically, sarcastically, or earnestly and still achieve death. Look at me falling in love with fallible bodies. Look at me performing emotional labor
Gabby Bess
#88. It's perverting the course of justice is what it is. Do
Bess Hart
#89. It was queer how it all hurt you--how the odor of the night, the silver sheen of the moon, the moist feeling of the dew, the whispering of the night breeze, how somewhere down in your throat it hurt you.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#90. Bess hadn't ever been good with change. She'd never been good with taking leaps of faith, or risks or changes. When something worked, she tended to stick with it.
Even when something didn't.
Megan Hart
#91. I would advise all professional athletes to get involved and to try to help make a difference.We can make a huge impact. We can be that difference maker just because of our status and because of what we do. If we don't, who else will?
Davone Bess
#92. When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#93. Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet forever the same.
Megan Hart
#94. And so they discussed it seriously, Abbie who knew that one may laugh with a child but at him, and Laura, who knew that Grandma was one unfailing source of sympathy and understanding in a world which was beginning to be critical.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#95. I am on three different mood stabilizers so I don't think I experience a full range of emotions anymore. I feel abstractly dissatisfied with my life but mostly detached.
Gabby Bess
#97. I know Jane is dear to you," Bess said. "I also know that she's in danger. But Jane is one person, Edward. There are thousands of lives at stake. There's a kingdom on the edge of a knife. We must tread carefully.
Cynthia Hand
#98. Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#99. Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
Bess Truman
#100. You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look ... You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes. It warps your expression. It affects your character, your personality.
Bess Myerson
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