Benanten Quotes & Sayings

If you don't finish half of the races, you are not going to have a very good season. — Helio Castroneves

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ... — Dale Spender

Why send a daughter to school?" the men often say. "She doesn't need an education to run a house. — Malala Yousafzai

The House
... She lays her beams in music,
In music every ore,
To the candence of the whirling world
Which dances round the sun-
That so they shall not be displaced
By lapses or by wars,
But for the love of happy souls
Out live the newest stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going. — Allen West

Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow's gentle caress on their peaks — Munia Khan

Sometime, Mrs. Truitt, we work very hard at something, we exhaust ourselves to accomplish something which seems vital to us." He chose his words with care. "Our best hope for happiness. And sometimes we find that thing, only to find it has simply not been worth the effort. — Robert Goolrick

Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women. — Marianne Williamson

Caine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him. — V.S. Carnes

Not knowing one's real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs. — Dada Bhagwan