Witte Benen Quotes & Sayings

Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.) — Karen Joy Fowler

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off. — C.S. Lewis

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others. — Plutarch

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. — Pablo Picasso

Always consider giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game ... And if it's a game, then you need to win. — Taylor Swift

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love. — Idries Shah

I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them? — Camryn Manheim

You know, it's funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life. — Gloria Estefan

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. — Jean Paul

You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing civilization. And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and raped and stolen from? You said you knew justice when you heard it. Well, what is your justice but you allowed to treat us as you like, and us condemned for even attempting to defend ourselves? — Ann Leckie

Chantel plays the piece with such passion that I can only sum it up as this: If the notion of sublime were to take musical form, this is what you would hear. — Ella Frank