Beneficium Excussionis Quotes & Sayings

Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself. — Brian Herbert

Darling, we're going to hurt each other. That's what happens when you're in a relationship." The smile faded from his lips. "It has already happened and yet, here we still are."
- Graham, 'Wheeler — Sara Butler Zalesky

We were not Germanizable. But our soil was." Emilia p11 — Ruta Sepetys

Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia. — Isabel Allende

17And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. i I came not to call the righteous, j but sinners. — Anonymous

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you. — Charles Spurgeon

Your Obstacle Is Your Miracle — Hope D. Blackwell

Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people. — David Foster Wallace

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once. — Honore De Balzac

The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast, die young, and have a literate corpse. — Robert B. Parker

It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it. — William Faulkner

You couldn't control or anticipate a person who didn't care. They were wildcards. — Mariana Zapata