Nk Ben Nk Ben Quotes & Sayings

Eliza was stubborn as the year was long but she had a streak of honesty that rivaled any knight's. — Anonymous

Ah! it is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself. To arrive at what one really believes, one must speak through lips different from one's own. To know the truth one must imagine myriads of falsehoods. — Oscar Wilde

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility. — Jo Walton

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation. — Joseph Alleine

Abraham Lincoln wasn't much of a dancer. "Miss Todd, I should like to dance with you in the worst way," he told his future wife. Miss Todd later said to a friend, "He certainly did."

"John Quincy Adams was a first-rate swimmer. Once when he was skinny-dipping in the Potomac River, a women reporter snatched his clothes and sat on them until he gave her an interview."

"(Andrew Johnson couldn't read until he was fourteen! He didn't learn to write until after he was married!) — Judith St. George

The leading cause of death is birth. — Lewis H. Lapham

It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows," Epictetus says. — Ryan Holiday

When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance. — Andrew Bird

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality. — Grace Paley

believe that hard work pays off, then you work hard; if you think it's hard to get ahead even when you try, then why try at all? Similarly, — J.D. Vance

Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood. — C.S. Lewis

Good sense appears the most underhand of tactics to a man who has no reserves of his own to draw upon. — Sophie Hannah

My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders. — Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy