Ruth Benerito Quotes & Sayings

It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you're perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you're perceived to be alluringly stupid. — Jon Ronson

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. — Mark Twain

I AM (your true self) is not interested in man's opinion. All its interest lies in your conviction of yourself. What do you say of the I AM within you? Can you answer and say, "I AM Christ"? Your answer or degree of understanding will determine the place you will occupy in life. Do you say or believe yourself to be a man of a certain family, race, nation, etc.? Do you honestly believe this of yourself? Then life, your true self, will cause these conceptions to appear in your world and you will live with them as though they are real. — Neville Goddard

For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. — Joey Tolbert

Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget. — Orson Scott Card

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. — Franz Kafka

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers. — Julian Barnes

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful. — Alan Bennett

Commit yourself to excellence. — Mark LaMoure