Benon Sevan Quotes & Sayings

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing ... although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor. — Will Self

Unrequited love is most painful. If you express you feeling it may hurt her/him but if don't express it will hurt you like hell. — Raj Singh

We head for the horizon, on the plane of immanence, and we return with bloodshot eyes, yet they are the eyes of the mind. — Gilles Deleuze

Life is like any other contact sport; you're gonna get your knocks. But it's not the knocks that count, it's how you handle them. If you handle them with anger, distrust, jealousy, hate, this in return is what you're going to get. But if you handle these knocks with love and understanding, they don't mean much. They just dissipate. — Sydney Banks

Though logic-choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy ... — William Butler Yeats

My first movie was totally improvised. — Damien Chazelle

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too. — Lynn Johnston

Stupidly perhaps, and sometimes at the cost of my own job, or being labeled "difficult," I'm willing to say shit to people no matter who they are and what the consequences may be. And yes, in the end, I'm probably cutting off my nose to spite my face. But that's who I am. — Leah Remini

Making money is good, but there's no pockets in a shroud. — Terry Pratchett

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning. — Peter Kreeft

The essence of your being reincarnates. — Frederick Lenz

With resentment, hearts burn in the fire of hatred. With forgiveness, hearts dance with pure joy. — Debasish Mridha

Abel also kept busy taking it easy. Only when taking it easy, he'd learned, could one properly do one's wondering. — William Steig