Benkendorf Garden Quotes & Sayings

Never assume that you have attained truth. Don't make any claim to knowledge. Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth. The minute you do, your downfall is assured. Whenever you imagine you know something, you cease being open to the living exploration. You have closed a door and cut off the oxygen to the breathing truth. — Mooji

Religion is the one area of our discourse — Sam Harris

Her hand was small and had shape, not the usual bony garden tool you see on women nowadays. — Raymond Chandler

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word. — Robert Littell

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration. — Baltasar Gracian

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. — Susie Bright

Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works. — Charles Kingsley

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included. — Albert Einstein

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings. — Francis Bacon

I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone. — Jimmy Cliff

When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that. — David Mamet

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say. — Ricki Lake

Porter it was that fattened people in my own fami ly, and it would be a hard thing not to drink porter with every other decent man, and maybe stand fi l ling your pipe with your back to the counte r , and maybe talk of the time you were in j a i l in England — Anonymous

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. — Christopher Hitchens

Always, I believed that if I ever acted out my rape fantasy the way I wanted, this would be the moment where I started to regret it. My pride would return. I wouldn't be able to believe I'd abased myself like this, that I'd let a man treat me like a possession he owned. No matter how good the sex had or hadn't been, I thought, afterward I'd be so ashamed it wouldn't be worth it. — Lilah Pace