Benyon Track Quotes & Sayings

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue [ ... ] — George Eliot

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin. — Mark Dever

When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty ... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman. — Louisa May Alcott

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self. — Ansel Adams

He had the freedom of a nobody, with a blank future unrolling before him on which anything at all might be written. — Margaret Atwood

You can empathize without sympathizing. — William Ury

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands. — Niccolo Machiavelli

You are judged on your last game no matter how many you have banked. — Ian Eagle

I love any opportunity I have to make music. — Barry Manilow

If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting? — Malcolm Gladwell