Ricarda Benz Quotes & Sayings

How, in so short a time, she had passed from intoxication to disgust we will only seek to explain by supposing that this mysterious composition which we call society, is nothing absolutely good or bad in itself, but has a spirit in it, volatile but potent, which either makes you drunk when you think it, as Orlando thought it, delightful, or gives you a headache when you think it, as Orlando thought it, repulsive. That the faculty of speech has much to do with it either way, we take leave to doubt. Often a dumb hour is the most ravishing of all; brilliant wit can be tedious beyond description. But to the poets we leave it, and so on with our story. — Virginia Woolf

When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Never think that you know everything and you do not have anything to learn from your people. — Sunday Adelaja

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me. — Summer Sanders

Her head titled to the side and her eyebrows crept up her face. It was her uh-durrr face, she was just too kind to actually say it to me. — H.M. Ward

I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter. — Girolamo Savonarola

Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have lunch, and I don't like it. — Thalia

Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again. — Cory Doctorow

Poker is war. People pretend it is a game."
~Doyle Brunson — Kiara Delaney

O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him. — Plato

Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white. — Waite Phillips