Ben Barres Quotes & Sayings

The cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing. — Napoleon Hill

I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career. — Jacob K. Javits

I was once the avatar of retribution. Now I just try to be polite. — Brent Weeks

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books. — David McCullough

My body would cry
from all it felt
and all it couldn't. — David Levithan

This floor is a cold floor. I should get up off this floor. There's still a fat fellow over there, and he's pointing a pistol at my heart. — Salmon Rushdie

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space. — David Harvey

The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital system that reaches only the "right" cases, without dragging in the wrong cases, cases of innocence or cases where death is not proportionate punishment. Slowly, even reluctantly, I have realized the answer to that question is no- we will never get it right. — Scott Turow

Not having any drink about ain't the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body's perspective. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him. The branches tore at my skin in an effort to bind me, while weeds sought to shackle my ankles, so that I could go no further. The pain they caused was minor, when I compared it to the searing inferno at my core. — J.D. Stroube

Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack. — PureDragonWolf