Benigne Quotes & Sayings

Ladders were not inherently dangerous, he told himself, people climbed them every day, and most of them lived. — Anne Ursu

It was the gravity of the place. In football the facility was designed to be difficult to leave. Everything was there for you. A barber came in regularly. So did a dry cleaner and a car washer. Three meals a day were served. And best of all, there was the built-in coterie of brothers and fathers and uncles and a mutual sense of binding purpose. — Nicholas Dawidoff

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. — Matthew McConaughey

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

( ... ) after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from sheer sympathy with failure ( ... ) — Vladimir Nabokov

Every error is truth abused. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

But I looked out of the open window too, over a large area of Amsterdam, over all the roofs and on to the horizon, which was such a pale blue that it was hard to see the dividing line. "As long as this exists," I thought, "and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy. — Anne Frank

The world itself makes us sick of the world. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. — Jacques Benigne Bossuel

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. — Jacques Benigne Bossuel

An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity
the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record. — Greg Ginn

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

By letting go, you allow everything to find it's rightful place. Once free, everything finds its way home. — Leon Brown

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet