Benyamina White Wine Quotes & Sayings

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order. — Richard Rohr

If someone is inconsiderate or rude to you, risk telling them how it made you feel or that you didn't appreciate being treated that way. If you tend to talk yourself out of anger by telling yourself that you don't want to make waves, try telling yourself instead that it is okay to make waves sometimes and risk letting people know how you really feel. — Beverly Engel

You can obsess and obsess over how things ended - what you did wrong or could have done differently - but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry? — Jess Rothenberg

Poetry is a kind of money. — Vanessa Place

Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about."
Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit. — Orson Scott Card

...the wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses; and the vast coils of the whale's brain wrapped around him like a gray constricting snake. I pitied him: but it was probably stray feedback from the Net... — Raphael Carter

I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky ... — Billy Collins

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. — Giordano Bruno

The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens. — George Scialabba

'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start. — Barbara Cooney

They would get their shit together, and keep it together, and maintain it neatly and in good working order. — Tim O'Brien

They were the only people in all the universe who were not conscious. Although every creature could think and reason, it could not know itself as every other intelligent creature could know itself. The creatures lacked awareness of who they were as individuals, even as they lived and thrived and grew on the face of the moon of the planet. — John Scalzi