Juno And The Paycock Bentham Quotes & Sayings

For what benefit is beauty, the greatest blessing of heaven, if it be mixed with affectation? What youth, if corrupted with the severity of old age? Lastly, — Erasmus

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate. — Dan Barber

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy. — Annalee Newitz

I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions. — Randeep Hooda

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me. — Sadie Jones

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories — Ben Okri

And perhaps some other later girl, leafing through her father's library, would come across a footnote in an academic journal and read the name 'Faith Sunderly.' Faith? she would think. That is a female name. A woman did this. If that is so ... then so can I. And the little fire of hope, self-belief and determination would pass to another heart. — Frances Hardinge

There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants. — Gary Johnson

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God. — Oswald Chambers

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing. — John Mayer

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland. — Petro Poroshenko

It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers. — F. Sionil Jose