Benoite Urbaine Quotes & Sayings

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly. — Cassiodorus

You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls? — Greg Ray

There will never be another Frida. — Barbara Kingsolver

We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else. — Paul Arden

She had told herself she should be reassured by his squeamishness; a man who balked at scars would not give her new ones. Now she suddenly wondered if she'd had it wrong. A man without scars would always underestimate their value. He would not see them as marks of courage. — Meredith Duran

I wish we would stop sending signals out into space to find other "intelligent" life. I'd prefer earth remained the Best Kept Little Secret, thank you very much. — Ava Bradley

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured. — Emma Goldman