1472 Benjamin Quotes & Sayings

He found himself filled with joy, for now his existence had a meaning. He had a future, because he was part of a world that had a future, and instead of wanting to decide for himself and determine that future for everyone else, he knew that he would be glad just to touch some small part of it. To marry and give happiness to his wife. To have a child and give it the same love that his parents gave him. To have a friend and ease his burdedn now and then. To have a skill or a secret and teach it to a student whose life might be changed a little by what he learned. Why had he dreamed of leading armies, whichwould accomplish nothing, when he could do these miraculous small things and change the world? — Orson Scott Card

Lou Reed is unimpressed by applause, and lives a life detached from custom. His stare is cold and his romanticism is brutal. His songs are half-sung melodies of menace. He might drop dead any second, and is therefore the real thing. Examined ravenously like a museum exhibit, Lou Reed is evidently spiked to excess, and strangely loveable. — Morrissey

For adventure is not outside a man; it is within. — David Grayson

Shadowy tangles of unpaved musty-smelling lanes where eldritch — H.P. Lovecraft

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life. — John C. Danforth

We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present. — Alan Gussow

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. — Lucille Clifton

With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do. — Park Dietz

Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir. — Libba Bray

Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way. — Jaggi Vasudev

honesty is hard work. — Spider Robinson

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [ ... ] because one isn't always equal to oneself. — Primo Levi

The voices belonged to dragons.
Five of them lay on or sprawled over or curled around the various rocks and columns that filled the huge cave where Cimorene stood. Each of the males (there were three) had two short, stubby, sharp-looking horns on either side of their heads; the female dragon had three, one on each side and one in the center of her forehead. The last dragon was apparently still too young to have made up its mind which sex it wanted to be; it didn't have any horns at all. — Patricia C. Wrede

Our United States "State religion" has become Secular Humanism which has no "separation from the State. — James C. Campbell

V?" Butch said. "Don't leave, okay?"
"Never." V brushed Butch's hair back with a gesture so tender it was out of place coming from a male. — J.R. Ward