Benilde Hall Quotes & Sayings

War is strange. In the beginning it is about people; in the end it is about power. Power couldn't care less how many die. — Cristiane Serruya

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley

Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand. — Marcus Aurelius

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow. — Saint Augustine

I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of certain means of expressing this value, yet the fact remains that I have no sympathy for the current European civilization and do not understand its goals, if it has any. So I am really writing for friends who are scattered throughout the corners of the globe. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh! ... Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah! — T.D. Jakes

Eleanor Vance was thirty-two years old when she came to Hill House. The only person in the world she genuinely hated, now that her mother was dead, was her sister. She disliked her brother-in-law and her five-year-old niece, and she had no friends. — Shirley Jackson

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal. — G-Eazy

Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realize that they had forgotten — Tove Jansson