Bensky Entertainment Quotes & Sayings

There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same. — Mark Twain

A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem. — Christina Romer

We carry our ancestors in our names and sometimes we carry our ancestors through the sliding doors of emergency rooms and either way they are heavy, man, either way we can't escape. — Marie-Helene Bertino

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down - or up, I suppose - replacing other people in the process. — Alexander McCall Smith

As an adult, I know about life and death. I know that good people can die too soon and bad ones can live too long. I know that life's not fair, and you take the bitter with the sweet and balance it all as best you can. — Elsie Hillman-Gordon

The albums I did around that time probably wouldn't have been the same without Ecstacy. The first three Soft Cell albums ... were all really albums that were just done around Ecstacy and the whole E feeling. — Marc Almond

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best. — Donald Hall

Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well — Libby Trickett

War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. — George Orwell

Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That. — Rumi

My whole story is just about me having a second chance. — Two Chainz

She discussed her unhappiness with Mary Pereira, but the ayah only told her that there was no happiness to be gained from "the mens"; they made pickles together as they talked, and Amina stirred her disappointments into a hot lime chutney which never failed to bring tears to the eyes. — Salman Rushdie

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Oh, honey. You picked the wrong bear to poke. — Codi Gary

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. — James A. Baldwin