Benziger Estate Winery Quotes & Sayings

Before fighting for truth, find the truth. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

Trusting me is a dangerous game, mi Adelinetta. — Marie Lu

Self persuasion was a concept much loved by evolutionary psychologists. I had written a piece about it for an Australian magazine. It was pure armchair science, and it went like this: if you lived in a group, like humans have always done, persuading others of your own needs and interests would be fundamental to your well-being. Sometimes you had to use cunning. Clearly you would be at your most convincing if you persuaded yourself first and did not even have to pretend to believe what you were saying. The kind of self-deluding individuals who tended to do this flourished, as did their genes. So it was we squabbled and scrapped, for our unique intelligence was always at the service of our special pleading and selective blindness to the weakness of our case. — Ian McEwan

In early autumn the farm recruiters arrived to sign up new workers, and the War Relocation Authority allowed many of the young men and women to go out and help harvest the crops. Some came back wearing the same shoes they'd left in and swore they would never go out there again. They said they'd been shot at. Spat on. Refused entrance to the local diner. The movie theater. The dry goods store. They said the signs in the windows were the same wherever they went: 'No Japs Allowed.' Life was easier, they said, on this side of the fence. — Julie Otsuka

Mankind Needs To Fit Into God's Agenda So As To Fulfill Purpose — Sunday Adelaja

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others. — Paddy Ashdown

What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say — Quentin L. Cook

It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrowing to make up an increasing deficit must, in the end, if continued, prove ruinous. — John C. Calhoun

I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me. — Justin Timberlake

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. — Lord Byron

You yourself never loved; you never love!
Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so? — Bram Stoker