Benevolen Quotes & Sayings

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods. — Marjane Satrapi

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art. — Francis Bacon

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right. — Lysander Spooner

We are so many
and many within themselves
travel to far islands but no one
asks for their story ... — Denise Levertov

Dear Lord, please make me the kind I f person my dog thinks I am — Anonymous

I had a spectacular four years as OpenTable CEO and remain an active executive chairman. I think, for me, some of the interesting observations there are, you know, global is important, mobile is extremely important. And then, network businesses are very attractive. — Jeff Jordan

It's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ... — John Geddes

I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. — Sylvia Plath

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. — William Makepeace Thackeray

They were carried out. He was a tyrant, not so much in the quality of the work he demanded, as in the quantity. There were some thirty horses in the yard. The head lad cared — Dick Francis

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do. — Dean Ornish

I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution: the principle of religious independence, of religious liberty, of religious freedom. — John F. Kennedy

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence. — Elie Wiesel

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know. — Coventry Patmore

Now, I looked across the Plattsburgh train depot and swelled with indulgent love at Ev's grumpy scowl. — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the freedom to provide and protect for black women, to be benevolen patriarchs. Benevolent patriarchs exercise their power without using force. And it was this notion of patriarchy that educated black men coming from slavery into freedom sought to mimic. However, a large majority of black men took as their standard the dominator model set by white masters. When slavery ended these black men often used violence to dominate black women, which was a repetition of the strategies of control white slave masters used. — Bell Hooks