Benners In Bennington Quotes & Sayings

My heart is sair-I dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody. — Robert Burns

Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed - against reason - that they could fly: without that collective delusion sustaining them, they would instantly plummet to earth. — Margaret Atwood

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection. — Alberto Gonzales

Most merciful God, order my day so that I may know what you want me to do, and then help me to do it. Let me not be elated by success or depressed by failure. I want only to take pleasure in what pleases you, and only to grieve at what displeases you. — Kurt Bjorklund

If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia. — Noel Coward

A watch manufacturer in New York tried out two series of watch advertisements; one argued the superior construction, workmanship, durability, and guarantee offered with the watch; the other was headed, "A Watch to be Proud of," and dwelt upon the pleasure and pride of ownership. The latter series sold twice as many as the former. A salesman for a locomotive works informed the writer that in selling railroad engines emotional appeal was stronger than an argument based on mechanical excellence. — J. Berg Esenwein

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. — Mae West

If you're an oak
you don't pretend
you are a flower — Matsuo Basho

The Scripture says that as Jesus gave up his spirit, as he sagged there, lifeless on that Roman cross, God the Father turned his back. I am convined that he did that because if he kept on watching, he couldn't have gone through with it. — Todd Burpo

When outsiders criticize Americans, they regularly note that we seem self-centered, which we are. But few contend we are selfish, and with good reason; we are not. — Harry Beckwith

A disaster wrapped in a catastrophe sitting on a pile of misfortune. — Tracy Brogan