Benjou Jones Quotes & Sayings

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings. — Leslie Stephen

I saw that book in the lot and I needed a better look at it. I overbid terribly, but I needed to be certain I had it. Purely speculation, of course - nobody was allowed to get a good close look before bidding - but I thought there was a chance it was my book. The way Treasure Island is Marie's. But the moment I touched it I knew it wasn't mine. I knew it wasn't for selling, either, not at Churchwarry and Son. I can't explain it other than to say that it was begging to be given away. — Erika Swyler

Will," she said, voice shaking.
"Yeah?"
"After this? Please don't break me."
I paused, searching her expression. She'd sounded scared, but her face was only hunger. "I won't. — Christina Lauren

Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples. — Victoria Alexander

The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today ... The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow"
"Autobiography of an Historian", An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949). — G. M. Trevelyan

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. — Hillary Clinton

during transitions to democracy, nations often undergo political convulsions that make them hard to govern, thus feeding nostalgia for their old authoritarian order. — Moises Naim

True spirituality respects the vessel of creation we call "human" and intuits that because this vessel was created by God, it could only ever be perfect - even if it does need some fine-tuning from time to time. — Tehya Sky

You don't ask any questions. You don't get any answers. You don't stray from the path. You don't even think about what's happening to you right now. Got it? — Neil Gaiman

To devote yourself to someone else's pussy can be a means of devoting yourself to your own. — Maggie Nelson

What interests me is the unforeseeable. — Sigmar Polke

I think it's a response to terrorism. From the time we're little girls, we're taught to fear the bad man who might get us. We're terrified of being raped, abused, even killed by the bad man, but the problem is, you can't tell the good ones from the bad ones, so you have to wary of them all. We're told not to go out by ourselves late at night, not to dress a certain way, not to talk to male strangers, not to lead men on. We take self-defense classes, keep our doors locked, carry pepper spray and rape whistles. The fear of men is ingrained in us from girlhood. Isn't that a form of terrorism? — Sarai Walker

Photography helps people to see. — Berenice Abbott

I believe it's important that Hong Kong does not become another Chinese city. — Richard Li