Benefitting Def Quotes & Sayings

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father. — Chris Paul

For there is nothing more intolerable to mankind than suspense; when a thing is once decided, men can but endure whatever out of the catalogue of evils it is their misfortune to undergo. — B.H. Liddell Hart

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas. — Andrew Davies

My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity. — Aaron Koblin

Max had to think about these new developments. He hadn't liked getting hit by a rock
his stomach still ached from then rock Judith had thrown
but then again, when his team had used rocks on Alexander, it had caused him to surrender. Now the Bad Guys only had three soldiers left, which would make victory for Max's team more likely. So now it made perfect sense. He was wrong to ban rocks, or even animals. The key was to use all the weapons at one's disposal, but to just make sure you won when you used them. — Dave Eggers

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position. — Piet Mondrian

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. — Herbert Simon

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy. — James Madison

The economy is being run primarily by the banks for their own interest. — Michael Hudson

The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks. — Therese Of Lisieux

Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form. — Thomas Troward

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. — Jacques Lacan

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace. — Gordon B. Hinckley