Flora Benson Quotes & Sayings

Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters — Ellen Langer

Really?... I'll take that as a challenge. — Jandy Nelson

...someone who doesn't say please or thank you or smile when you'd expect him to and thinks 'How are you?' means 'How are you?' and stands too close to people when he talks and never tells them, 'I think maybe perhaps such-and-such,' but always, flat-out, 'You are wrong,' and 'This is bad,' and 'She is stupid'; no shades of gray, all black and white and 'What I say goes.' — Anne Tyler

That's how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks. — Gillian Flynn

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind. — Colin Powell

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear. — Bo Bice

Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the universe from the beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without organisms and evolution, and without man and man's experience of change. But he seems to have thought that a live universe with events unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead one. — Karl Popper

It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence. — William H. Macy

Some children do what they're told to do; some children do what they're told not to do; all children do what they're parents have done. — Iyanla Vanzant

He's a monster, wrapped up in a pretty package. But I find myself wondering at times like this, when I feel the distance between us, if maybe in his eyes, the real monster is me. — J.M. Darhower

Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America ... Now the word "fundamentalist" actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith . And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity, and when I say there are very few fundamentalists, I mean in the sense that they are all actually called fundamentalist churches, and those would be quite small. There are no large ones. — Rick Warren

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease. — Sean Elliott

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson