#bernard

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#closet #i #into #later #me

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated. ↗

— David Low

#another #bernard #churchill #each #even

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#death #desperation #french-literature #life #paul-et-virginie

There is never but one pleasant side to this human life. Like the globe on which we turn, our own rapid rotation is but one day, and a part of this day cannot receive light, so that the other part will not be delivered into darkness. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#french-novel #paul-and-virginie #paul-et-virginie #life

I have a St. Bernard named B. ↗

— Heather O'Rourke

#i #named

I pretend something scary is in front of me. ↗

— Heather O'Rourke

#i #named

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike. ↗

— Heather O'Rourke

#i #named

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#life

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw. ↗

— James Herriot

#bernard #calls #care #farmer #george

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the eagle?’ he asked me… ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#human-nature #living #perspective #quote #quotes