Ben Cherington Quotes & Sayings

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances. — Andrei Codrescu

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field. — Don DeLillo

( ... ) gender bias influences how we view performance and typically raises our assessment of men while lowering our assessment of women. — Sheryl Sandberg

And now you're here. And we can do this over. You know its you, right. It's always been you. — Jessica Love

Researching Dad's life, I've made contact with his old colleagues and friends and others we knew - people like Joyce Jenkins of Poetry Flash; and Jimmy Siegel, who owns Distractions; and Sean, the smiling Southerner who worked at Coffee Tea & Spice. Speaking with them, I got to hear three powerful words, three words I didn't know I so badly needed to hear: "I remember you." With these words, the lights switch on. The music plays. The carousel starts up again and those glittery and colorful horses move up and down and around, delighting my every sense. For a moment, I get to be a child again. I feel wholly me. — Alysia Abbott

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons. — Jo Brand

Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons. — George W. Bush

I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly. — Alan Dershowitz

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out of any tradition. It has a mystical system and content that can hold its own with the best out of Tibet ... its an amazing tradition, but I think you need to be critical. — John O'Donohue