Benedicte Traberg Quotes & Sayings

Time...a maniac scattering dust. — Alfred Tennyson

Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens. — John Mica

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! — Ambrose Bierce

Very well." In a voice as cool and detached as if he were critiquing a work of art, he said, "Starting at the top: your brow is marked with intelligence, your gaze is direct, your features are delicate, your skin is fair, your voice is refined, your speech reflects education ... " He paused. "Even the way you hold your head is elegant." I was suddenly, excruciatingly self-conscious. I dropped my gaze, my face on fire. "Ah, yes," he said softly. "And then there is your modesty. No milkmaid could have blushed like that." To my mortification, I felt my blush deepen until the tips of my ears were tingling with the heat. "Shall I continue?" he asked with a hint of a laugh in his voice. "No, that is quite enough, thank you. — Julianne Donaldson

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers. — Edith Hamilton

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it. — Tony Campolo

I almost find it very attractive when a woman has no idea who I am. — Josh Henderson

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony. — Penn Jillette

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart. — Charles Spurgeon

For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography. — Andre Kertesz

The secret of our lost mode of prayer is to shift our perspective of life by feeling that the miracle has already happened and our prayers have been answered. Now we have the opportunity to bring this wisdom into our lives as prayers of gratitude for what already exists, rather than asking for our prayers to be answered. — Gregg Braden

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little. — Richard Linklater

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well. — Rupert Grint

There is a Japanese word for things made more beautiful by use, that bear the evidence of their own making, or the individuating marks of time's passage: a kind of beauty not immune to time but embedded in it. — Mark Doty