Beneficially Held Quotes & Sayings

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest! — Henry Home

Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically? — Chris Matthews

We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion. — Richard Flanagan

There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half
shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the
shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves. — William Shakespeare

I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works. — Drew Barrymore

If you're afraid you can't write, the answer is to write. Every sentence you construct adds weight to the balance pan. If you're afraid of what other people will think of your efforts, don't show them until you write your way beyond your fear. If writing a book is impossible, write a chapter. If writing a chapter is impossible, write a page. If writing a page is impossible, write a paragraph. If writing a paragraph is impossible, write a sentence. If writing even a sentence is impossible, write a word and teach yourself everything there is to know about that word and then write another, connected word and see where their connection leads. — Richard Rhodes

THEO: You should walk a fucking mile before you judge a situation. You should put yourself in someone else's shoes before you blame, or judge, or pity. It takes a long time to wear down someone's confidence, and it takes much more strength of will to walk away than it does to take another punch. — Con Riley

Corsetti pulled up and parked on 52nd Street in front of an apartment near the river. He put the cop light on top of the cruiser.
"Keep the fucking traffic buzzards from hauling it off to the tow lot," he said. — Robert B. Parker

When it comes to being born again, your soul wasn't the part of you that completely changed! — Paul Silway

She has probably never had a real man in her life; never felt a dick slide so deep she sees God. — Roxy Sloane

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money. — Billy Baldwin

Are we to treat the visibly saved with greater honor than all of humanity, made as it is in God's image? — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings. — Lucian Freud

The right use of the exercise of the will is a condition of salvation, necessary without a doubt, but remote, inferior, very subordinated, purely negative. Muscular effort pulls up weeds, but only the sun and water can make wheat grow. The will cannot produce any good in the soul. The efforts of the will are only in place for accomplishing specific obligations. Wherever there is no specific obligation, we must follow our natural inclination or our vocation, which to say the commandment of God. The acts proceeding from inclination are evidently not efforts of the will. And in acts of obedience to God, we remain passive. Whatever pains might accompany it, whatever deployment of activity might be apparent, they produce nothing analogous in the soul to muscular effort. There is only expectant waiting, attentiveness, silence and immobility through suffering and joy. The crucifixion of Christ is the model of all acts of obedience. — Simone Weil

Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant. — Camille Paglia