Benightedness Synonym Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and — Rebecca Solnit

Just like a dancer's body finds its points and an equestrian incorporates her body weight into the movement of the horse, the Christian learns how to melt her will into God's. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

I'm not a trained musician or singer, but I can turn out a song. — Anthony Newley

Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued. — Felix O. Hartmann

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways. — Paul Rusesabagina

You get married to get an ally against your family. — Jonathan Tropper

The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world - a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life. — Paulo Coelho

Did people never fall in love with anyone who was eager to return in? — Nora Roberts

We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State. — Margaret Thatcher

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage ... — William Shakespeare

Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells. — Monica Dickens

Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots; and that involves our beginning to think about these things in a new way. The change is as decisive as, for example, that from the alchemical to the chemical way of thinking. The new way of thinking is what is so hard to establish. Once the new way of thinking has been established, the old problems vanish; indeed they become hard to recapture. For they go with our way of expressing ourselves and, if we clothe ourselves in a new form of expression, the old problems are discarded along with the old garment. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Forget the past, I was going to do my thing (whatever that was) and be happy. Decision made. — Kylie Scott

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter. — Eloisa James