Bo Bennett Quotes

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Bo Bennett

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LifeBestDayGreatnessPeople

Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.

Jeremy Grantham

ProblemsBetterDownWorstRespond

As a kid, I was only allowed to watch a certain amount of television. But once I was old enough to own my own TV, I would stay up until 4:00 A.M. watching Home Shopping Network night after night. Soft-spoken women talked about the jewelry in very detailed, intricate, precious ways, and I loved it.

Andrea Seigel

HomeWomenShoppingNightJewelry

If you can't control everything, you can't control anything, not really.

Angela Ahrendts

ControlYouEverythingAnything

'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.

Joyce Carol Oates

ChildrenWarInjusticeYoungPoor

Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices stay in their envelopes, you're making matters worse. When you finally have to deal with the problem - believe me, you will eventually - it will be exaggerated because you didn't take action.

Jean Chatzky

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I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

David Whyte

BelieveI BelieveHumanAlwaysThan

I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.

Brendan Gleeson

LifeAdversityHopeMyselfEnding

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

Archibald MacLeish

TogetherSilenceBlueSmallCold

I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

Anthony Doerr

ImaginationMomWorldReadingVoice

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

William Finnegan

GoodBuyBuyingCannotPressWho

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

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Years ago, I did an interview about my mother for a publication called 'Info' magazine, and during that interview I told the reporter about my mother's leiomyosarcoma. She had had a hysterectomy, but at the time of it, the doctors didn't even think to look for sarcoma.

Peri Gilpin

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