Bennachie Quotes & Sayings

Oh, you know. I'm queen of the rumor mill. It seems like there's been a new rumor about me every week since I got here. Comes with being the new girl, I guess. Have you heard the one where I seduced the basketball coach? That's a personal favorite. — Cynthia Hand

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. — Michael Anti

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done. — Louisa May Alcott

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends. — Alfred Armand Montapert

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression. — Martin E. Marty

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It was the unexpected that happened, always. — William Maxwell

It is only when we are ready to give up on some things in our lives that we could receive new things. — Sunday Adelaja

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. — Samuel Johnson

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — William Hazlitt

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all ... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination.
(Nathan to Nat) — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative, Elloren Gardner, is to live your life based on injustice and lies. — Laurie Forest

Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak. — Monique Roffey

Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff. — Mahatma Gandhi

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business. — Christopher Walken