Leslee Bender Quotes & Sayings

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church. — Thom S. Rainer

I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that. — Ron Carlson

She watched unguarded emotion wash across his face as he sank into her. Wonder. Pleasure. Need. Anticipation. Love. Under it all, infusing every look, every action, every touch. Love. — Anne Calhoun

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind. — Ward Churchill

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.
Epictetus — Epictetus

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time. — Richard Rodney Bennett

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives. — H.L. Mencken

I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown, depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the line. — Jimmy Page

The partnerships between Schmidt and Giscard, Kohl and Mitterrand, and even between Chirac and Schroeder, have proved that political differences do not mean that we cannot work together. — Francois Hollande

If nobody can learn from the past,
then there's no point in raking it up. — Billie Holiday

How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night. — Kellie Elmore

When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body - or vagina - has to do the opposite. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We've created the almost godly power of being able to alter the climate, to change the face of the earth, now we need to develop the consciousness of gods, and wield that power wisely — Anodea Judith

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you. — Anita Diamant