Benignities Quotes & Sayings

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.' — Henry Rollins

She walks to the boy, tilts her head up at him, and smiles. He bends down to kiss her. Then he helps her onto the horse, and she rides away with him to a faraway place, until they can no longer be seen.
These are only rumors, of course, and make little more than a story to tell around the fire. But it is told. And thus they live on. — Marie Lu

The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied ... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause. — Pat Boone

Einstein once wrote, The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Alan Lightman

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime. — Khaled Hosseini

You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. — William T. Sherman

The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart. — Steve Goodier

There is no true orator who is not a hero. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated. — James Russell Lowell

I feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable. — Lauren Oliver

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. — Khaled Hosseini

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it. — Michelle Dockery

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. — Chuck Palahniuk

I wish I could weep the way my teacher did as he read us Molly Bloom's soliloquy of yes. — Terrance Hayes