Johnette Benkovic Williams Quotes & Sayings

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair. — Walter Scott

To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. — E. E. Cummings

Suddenly, both Archer's and Jenna's hands clamped down on my wrists. — Rachel Hawkins

We are journeying externally from country to country. We are traveling in historical time, from the present to the distant past. We are traveling inwardly as well, through the music of meditation. — Paul Horn

Books," he said, "are like mushrooms. They grow when you are not looking. Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest leads to another interest, and this compounds into third. Next, you have so much interest there is no space in closet. — Tom Rachman

What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs; the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them! — Bernard De Mandeville

What is particularly amusing about cocker spaniels is their swaying gait when they are in a playful mood: it's as if they had tiny little springs screwed to their paws that cause them to bounce upward - but gently, without jolting. This also affects their paws and ears like the rolling of a ship, so cocker spaniels, like jaunty little vessels plying dry land, lend a nautical touch to the urban landscape: utterly enchanting. — Muriel Barbery

We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others. — Patti J. Smith

To die of age is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death, — Michel De Montaigne

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man. — Muhammad Iqbal

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? — George Carlin

Did he realize how he was sometimes able to say the perfect thing? Because if he was trying to get in my pants, it was working. — Heather Demetrios

I saw now how different the same features could seem when they were illuminated by different spirit. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters.
Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it. — Mark R. Trost

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money. — Glen Hansard