Mbencino Quotes & Sayings

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream. — John Edgar Wideman

If you can take something as ultimately frivolous [as a comic book] in the cosmic scale of things in the universe and what's important - people being born and dying and everything else that's gonna happen today - if one gay kid in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, reads an X-Men comic and feels for a second like maybe they're not entirely alone in the world - that's amazing. I'll take it. Whatever size victory that is, I will take. — Matt Fraction

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.' — Mitt Romney

It's so nice to be able to end a sentence with a preposition when it's easier. — David Foster Wallace

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble. — Pierce Brosnan

It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Prayer and action ... can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation. — Henri Nouwen

People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional
they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them. — Sarah Schulman

The only thing I can say in comparison is when I play comedy characters; I definitely put empathy in right up at the forefront. I think if you believe in someone because you not necessarily feel sorry for them, but you can see how they are the way they are and you can laugh with them, but rather than laugh at them, you are on their side and I think it's — Rhys Darby

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money. — Christie Hefner

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge. — Leo Strauss

You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard," I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music. — Jim Butcher

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down. — Brendan Coyle

I didn't need to transform after all.
My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.
And maybe that's not so bad after all. — Holly Smale

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. — Emma Bonino