Benaiah Name Quotes & Sayings

The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment. — Henry Ward Beecher

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements. — Eric Hoffer

But there was a streak in me, a perverse one, which prevented me from giving the essential self. This "perversity" always voiced itself thus: "Reveal your true self and they will mutilate you. — Henry Miller

31. "Shut your eyes in order to see." ~ — Paul Gauguin

I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues. — Antonya Nelson

Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow. — Vironika Tugaleva

If you give what you do not need, it is not giving. — Mother Teresa

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature. — George Meredith

Residents tended to consider it a God-given right to gossip and nose into people's business, and no one was exempt.

-Lucky Harbor — Jill Shalvis

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change. — Melanne Verveer