Benefactress In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity. — Jean De La Bruyere

I got a hotel room at New York New York in Las Vegas and I was very happy. They've got that rollercoaster encircling the entire premises, just like Manhattan. — Mitch Hedberg

Adversity refined us like gold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The poem is a form of texting ... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. — Carol Ann Duffy

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things. — Chuck D

A woman could be totally powerless, and still give meaning to her life by dreaming about flight. — Fatema Mernissi

They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you. — Fannie Flagg

Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it. — Charlie Munger

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. — Stephen Greenblatt

Life ... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other ... The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was the fear of the unknown — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If someone cracks up, what does that mean? At what point does a person about to fall to pieces say: I'm cracking up? And if I were to crack up, what form would it take? — Doris Lessing

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me. — Taylor Dayne

Montrose decided then and there that a full library, one made of old-fashioned paper books with bindings, the kind that cannot be electronically re-edited by anonymous lines of hidden code, was just as much a necessity for a free man as a shooting iron or a printing press. — John C. Wright