Benefits Intermittent Quotes & Sayings

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event. — Fernand Braudel

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them. — Lee H. Hamilton

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow? — Andrei Platonov

If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks. — Daniel Woodrell

Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him. — Benjamin Franklin

The bird's delirium does not interest the trees. — Henri Michaux

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. — John Galt

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. — Charles W. Pickering

You have a fine scholar's way with words, I must say. You're good at empty reasoning. — Soseki Natsume