Bencidas Quotes & Sayings

I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes very terrifying experiences. I do believe that a lot of them are sincere. I do believe, also, that some of them may be misguided. But, I think the majority of them have experienced something. — Stephen King

Know what you want to accomplish in life, identify your purpose, and align it with your passion. — Farshad Asl

Many do not realize that
We here must die
For those who realize this
Quarrels end. — Gautama Buddha

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.[17 — Charlie Brooker

It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right. — Bob Seger

Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why ... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Saul Panzer stood facing the cast, not the audience. There is nothing impressive about Saul. He is undersized, his nose and ears are too big, and his shoulders slant. With Saul a thousand wrongdoers had made the mistake of believing what they saw. He spoke. "I believe this is the way it was Thursday evening when Mr. Wolfe entered. Does anyone disagree? — Rex Stout

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer — Rand Paul

The direction a cloud moves is always approved of by the wind. — Marty Rubin

-believed in carnal love. To us, a book's words were holy, but the paper, cloth, cardboard, glue, thread, and ink that contained them were a mere vessel, and it was no sacrilege to treat them as wantonly as desire and pragmatism dictated. Hard use was a sign not of disrespect but of intimacy. — Anne Fadiman

McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales. — Jim Cantalupo

Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person. — Marianne Williamson

All I know is that I know nothing. — Socrates

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life. — Gao Xingjian