Ben Finegold Quotes & Sayings

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy. — Maria Montessori

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. — John F. Kennedy

Women want to enjoy life today, men hope for a better tomorrow — Bangambiki Habyarimana

But just exactly what is the "good" to which we aspire through doing and eating things that are supposed to be good for us? This question is strictly taboo, for if it were seriously investigated the whole economy and social order would fall apart and have to be reorganized. It would be like the donkey finding out that the carrot dangled before him, to make him run, is hitched by a stick to his own collar.
For the good to which we aspire exists only and always in the future. Because we cannot relate to the sensuous and material present we are most happy when good things are expected to happen, not when they are happening. We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can't slow down enough to enjoy them when they come. We are therefore a civilization which suffers from chronic disappointment - a formidable swarm of spoiled children smashing their toys. — Alan W. Watts

Any time you see the word 'detox' someone is trying to sell you absolute waste-of-time crap. Your — Sara Pascoe

I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story. — Jerry Pournelle

At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening. — James Frank

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation. — Gustav Stresemann

In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies. — Kevin DeYoung

I created myself, echo and abyss, by thinking. I multiplied myself by going deeply into myself ... — Fernando Pessoa

LUKE 14. One Sabbath, p when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were q watching him carefully. 2. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. 3. And Jesus responded to r the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, s "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?" 4. But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. 5. And he said to them, t "Which of you, having a son [1] or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?" 6. u And they could not reply to these things. — Anonymous

I live a very balanced life. I am very good at delegating responsibilities. — Cynthia Carroll

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order. — Thomas Paine

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot. — Auguste Comte

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. — Alan Bennett