Benightedness Quotes

#1. Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

J.M. Coetzee

#2. He was handsome, devilishly so, able to gut you in a second, and look beautiful while you lay there dying.

Brooke Kennedy

#3. If a lady should do this, Raisa wondered, should a man do the same? Is he required to?

Cinda Williams Chima

#4. I like the clothes, too. I should shop flea markets more often."
He laughed at that. "You'd look good in anything, even rags.

B. J. Daniels

#5. Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another.

Kim Harrison

#6. In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.

Dean Koontz

#7. Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

Suzanne Collins

#8. Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

Dov Davidoff

#9. Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.

Robert Wilson

#10. Patience is for those who can't be bothered with procrastination!

Sharon Fletcher