Benkadi Quotes & Sayings

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action — Robert Anthony

In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin. — Thomas Hayden

For those who love ... time is eternity ... — Henry Van Dyke

Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third - his mind's - on the human condition. ... — Carl Sagan

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet. — Richard Pryor

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'. — Sun Tzu

There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor
both black and white
through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. — Martin Luther King Jr.

You didn't have to travel very far out of Vientiane before the road turned to pebbles and potholes. Traveling in a truck was like falling down an endless flight of uneven steps in a coffin. — Colin Cotterill

I opened my mouth to tell them to quit, but Lido nosed me in the shoulder and started running. He ran as best he could with his big belly, anyway. Realizing he was right because Dad had told me to just run if the Niques bothered me, I ran right past the Niques, too. So did Skil. When we were well past them, we all stopped and grinned at each other, wagging our tails slowly behind us. My den was the first we came to. Mom and Dad were waiting by my hole under the fence, to hear all about my day. I — Cherise Kelley

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. — Thomas Moore

We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all knowledge becomes anxiety. — Floriano Martins

He might as well be dressed in furs and carrying a spear, presenting me with the boar he'd caught for dinner. Ah, good old-fashioned Stone Age romance. — Kylie Scott

The windows of his house shone in the darkness like squares of melting butter. — Annie Proulx

Alicia doesn't approve of lupi, but she went to bed with one?"
"Amazing. After working homicide, you still think people are consistent. — Eileen Wilks

God is not free from human beings but for them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer