Bantings Quotes & Sayings

Our consciousness is primitive; it is dependent on wants and needs. — Debasish Mridha

As I asked more pointed questions about the choices and behaviors Wholehearted men and women made to reduce anxiety, they explained that reducing anxiety meant paying attention to how much they could do and how much was too much, and learning how to say, "Enough." They got very clear on what was important to them and when they could let something go. — Brene Brown

Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source. — Andy Goldsworthy

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management. — Red Ruffing

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper. — Hippolyte Taine

Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. — Francis Bacon

Never use two words when one will do. — Thomas Jefferson

It had seemed a funny story as she told it, both that morning by the waterfall and later at dinner, when she repeated it to the photographer and the agency man and the fashion coordinator for the client. Maria tried now to put what happened in Encino into the same spirited perspective, but Ceci Delano's situation seemed not to apply. In the end it was just a New York story. — Joan Didion

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly. — Samuel Beckett

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state. — George Mikes

the biggest deliverers of saturated fat - the type of fat doctors worry about - are cheese and red meat, — Michael Moss

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy. — George Herbert

For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change. — William S. Burroughs

True worship is God-centered — Sunday Adelaja

If I leaned toward him, something would happen. I was sure of it. But if I leaned away, nothing would happen. So I stayed perfectly still, balanced between something and nothing, not knowing which way I wanted to fall. — Julianne Donaldson