Quotes & Sayings About Bench Mates

Anyone who doesn't want you to be happy with who you are is an asshole. Fuck pleasing everyone else. You only live once. Who are you gonna do it for? — Dahlia Adler

But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects. — Jane Austen

There's a thing about trying too hard, which I think is in all forms, which is if you really try to do things really well, you can get to a less good place than if you just let go and let it fly. Especially in creativity. — Eddie Izzard

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service ... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen. — Albert Schweitzer

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. — Horatio Nelson

The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution. — Steven Magee

I don't think I have a black-hat image. — Harold Simmons

I'll never know how to love you the right way if I don't also know how to be your friend, Mia. — Bella Andre

That the more things resemble each other, the stronger the sympathetic link between them will be. — Patrick Rothfuss

I have tried to show how religion, the backbone of civilisation, hardens into a Church that is unacceptable to Outsiders, and the Outsiders - the men who strive to become visionaries - become the Rebels. In our case, the scientific progress that has brought us closer than ever before to conquering the problems of civilisation, has also robbed us of spiritual drive; and the Outsider is doubly a rebel: a rebel against the Established Church , a rebel against the unestablished church of materialism. Yet for all this, he is the real spiritual heir of the prophets, of Jesus and St. Peter, of St. Augustine and Peter Waldo. The purest religion of any age lies in the hands of its spiritual rebels. The twentieth century is no exception. — Colin Wilson

Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. — Peter F. Drucker