Benchmarked Questions Quotes & Sayings

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn't know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet. — Tarryn Fisher

Perhaps I shouldn't like it so much, but I've always been one for finding beauty in the ugliest stories. — LeAnn Neal Reilly

Whosoever, therefore, asks any one to believe blindly, or drags people behind him by the controlling power of his superior will, does an injury to humanity, though he may not intend it. — Swami Vivekananda

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily, — Eddie McGuire

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough. — William Zinsser

Nobody knows this crime territory better than Mark Langan. His authentic experience proves that he is an expert in telling a story worth listening to. --Alex Kava, NY Times Bestselling Crime Novelist — Mark Langan

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously. — David Alan Basche

In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him. — Billy Graham

I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino. — Anna Gunn

Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. This site is terrible! from, Allyson Stanley former miss America! — Frederick Soddy

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war. — Nigel Hamilton

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting. — Arnold Newman

Our flesh takes over when we decide to be self-centered instead of self-sacrificing. Then there is Satan. God — Stormie O'martian

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not. — Joseph Hall

Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you. — Claude C. Hopkins