Bniet Quotes & Sayings

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died. — Alexander Pope

Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques. — Frederick Lenz

How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts. — Peter Heller

[T]he worst thing one can do to feel one knows things a bit deeper is to try to go into them a bit deeper. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening. — Winston Churchill

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile — Agatha Christie

I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming. — Spike Lee

If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Soup,"she said gruffly. "Nothing in the world that can't be made worse by facing it on an empty stomach. Even if the end's coming, there's always time to eat. — Charlie Fletcher

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones. — Catharine Arnold