Michael Bennett Top 30 Quotes & Sayings

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots. — James K. Glassman

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost. — John Philpot Curran

Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity. — Robert Hunter

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food. — Betty Smith

When one begins to concentrate, the dropping of a pin will seem like a thunderbolt going through the brain. As the organs get finer, the perceptions get finer. These are the stages through which we have to pass, and all those who persevere will succeed. Give up all argumentation and other distractions. Is there anything in dry intellectual jargon? It only throws the mind off its balance and disturbs it. Things of subtler planes have to be realised. Will talking do that? So give up all vain talk. Read only those books which have been written by persons who have had realisation. — Swami Vivekananda

The bookseller said it's in two parts, and this is the first. I thought that next year, if we keep saving, we can get the second - — Anthony Doerr

Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. — Idries Shah

Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughtfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. — Jonathan Tropper

Their love of existence - chosen in the knowledge that nothing will be given, that one must make one's own desire and every shape of its fulfillment - through the steps of shaping metal, rails and motors - they had moved by the power of the thought that one remakes the earth for one's enjoyment, that man's spirit gives meaning to insentient matter by molding it to serve one's chosen goal. — Ayn Rand

Forsake the world and cling to the shadows. — Thomas Ligotti

Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must become an expert on a product, service or anything you write about to really be effective. — Joseph Sugarman

Think of a typical full-time worker, who's in the office from nine to five daily, but takes thirty minutes for lunch, leaves an hour early on Friday, and comes in an hour late on Tuesday due to a dental appointment. That puts her at 35.5 hours for the week. One errand tacked on to the end of lunch one day or a longish midmorning break will pull her under that thirty-five-hour threshold that defines "full time. — Laura Vanderkam

Acceptance doesn't mean masochistic pessimism, but joyful support of and participation in the great cosmic drama. — Nathan J. Johnson