Biniek Specialty Quotes & Sayings

The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down. — G. Willow Wilson

The superior man, in the world, does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. — Confucius

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster. — Edward Bennett Williams

Look what can happen in this country, they'd say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for 19 years, so poor she can't afford a magazine, and then she gets a scholarship to college and wins a prize here and a prize there and ends up steering New York like her own private car. Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolley-bus. — Sylvia Plath

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to. — George Papandreou

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear. — B.F. Skinner

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily. — Jennifer Aniston

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning. — Richard Widmark

From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. — Thomas Gray

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. — Yehuda Amichai

She thought of her younger days, - the gleam which seemed always ahead, - of the vague allure which accomplishing something in the arts had always held for her. And now she was nearly fifty and she was not to know the fruition of any of those hopes.
"Oh Will, I am so disappointed," she said to that invisible comrade who was only spirit and memory. "I can only feel those things, - not do them."
Isn't motherhood, itself, an accomplishment?
She knew that she made her own answer, and yet it gave her a sense of satisfaction and peace. Will might said it. It sounded like him.
"But I've made so many mistakes ... Will ... even in that."
You are a good mother, Abbie-girl."
Yes, it gave her a sense of peace and comfort. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without these one] fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge. — John Dewey

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere. — E. O. Wilson