Benedek Miklos Quotes & Sayings

I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile. — Stella Young

The nice thing about enemies is you know where they stand. This is not always true of friends."

--General Sergey Voloshin — Tom Clancy

No one ever listened themselves out of a job. — Herbert Hoover

No warrior scolds. Courteous words or else hard knocks are his only language. — C.S. Lewis

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses. — Billy Corgan

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens. — Frederik Pohl

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink. — Lynn Redgrave

I feel like I came to acting late in a way. — David Duchovny

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange,
Although he fleeced the flags of every nation,
For into a prime minister but change
His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation. — Lord Byron

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second
well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth. — Michel De Montaigne

Service is the virtue that distinguished the great of all times and which they will be remembered by. It places a mark if nobility upon its disciples. It is the dividing line which separates the two great groups of the world - those who help and those who hinder, those who lift and those who lean, those who contribute and those who only consume. How much better it is to give than to receive. Service in any form is comely and beautiful. To give encouragement, to impart sympathy, to show interest, to banish fear, to build self confidence and awaken hope in the hearts if others, in short - to love them and to show it - is to render the most precious service. — Bryant S. Hinckley

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference. — Marsha Blackburn

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment. — Greg Graffin