Bengan Quotes & Sayings

Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at. — Robin Hobb

When you find yourself in philosophical difficulties, the first line of defense is not to define your problematic terms, but to see whether you can think without using those terms at all. Or any of their short synonyms. And be careful not to let yourself invent a new word to use instead. Describe outward observables and interior mechanisms; don't use a single handle, whatever that handle may be. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance. — Theodore Roosevelt

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off. — Tania Raymonde

Neither of us is gonna be able to walk tomorrow."
"Who needs ta walk? Dunno 'bout you but I ain't plannin' ta leave this bed."
"What, we just lie here naked all weekend?"
"Somethin' wrong with that?"
"Might scandalize the marshals when they bring in my food."
"Aw, who the fuck cares."
Jack arched one eyebrow at him. "Who are you, and what have you done with D? — Jane Seville

What time is it?its is by every star
a different time,and each most falsely true ... — E. E. Cummings

In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture. — Ze Frank

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. — Robin Williams

Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore. — Jeremy Hardy

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.] — Jane Austen

The depreciation of the rouble keeps me awake at night, Dmitri Fyodorovitch; people don't know that side of me — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Being dead is being weak and walled off. — Richard McKenna