Benevolo Rae Quotes & Sayings

If blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. Or else get weapons. Your lives are worth so much less than theirs. — Kenneth Cain

Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak. — Henry Adams

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. — Henry Miller

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men. — John Ruskin

Tough times make tough people. — Benny Binion

Life is a lemon and I want my money back. — Meat Loaf

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce

I know that stress on me mentally and physically will only help me improve not only as a human being but as a wrestler. — Jordan Burroughs

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. — Nicolas Chamfort

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen. — Matt Gallagher

Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries. — Tahar Rahim

My mother says it is totally fine
if I blow off steam
as long as I speak in an octave
my kindness can still reach. — Andrea Gibson

In coming here, I was digging at the foundations of something larger and deeper, scratching tiny lines in a wall I dare not breach. There was a monster behind that wall, and I had built it strong to keep the monster at bay; now it stirred and stretched, restless in its dreaming. There was a new monster in town, it seemed - would its presence awaken the one I kept hidden? — Dan Wells

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style. — Clifford Geertz