Beth Quotes

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

I have really tried my best to ignore any double standard. I can't control the expectations of other people. I can control my attitude and my energy, and that's always been very positive.

Every woman I know in the broadcast business worked hard so we can talk about sports, not talk about us talking about sports. Ultimately, that's the goal. When the game starts, it's just a game.

We don't have a rooting interest. We have an interest in watching people excel and then coming up with creative ways to describe it.

I always knew I wanted to do it [broadcast]. I was always playing [sports] and I talked a lot too.

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.

Only the ones who believe ever see what they dream, ever dream what comes true.

People fall in love and swear they are so sure, then they turn around and say it's over. I never trusted love to come any closer till the moment you were mine.

I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.

I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!

At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.

My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.

I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.

My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.

When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.

I love to write the weird and creepy stuff!

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.

Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

I find that if I use my time well and take care of my mind/body when I'm outside of work, then I feel more supported throughout my day.

If I don't take care of myself and be kind to myself, then I can't take care of anyone else.

If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.

I am drawn to roles that are strong, intelligent, and a little edgy. With Complications, I navigate my character Samantha Ellison through some really emotionally challenging times.

I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.