Benjamin Silliman Quotes

#1. Know that Jesus is always waiting for you to accept His love.

George Calleja

#2. No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

William Ernest Hocking

#3. Now love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at his torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#4. Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity.

Benjamin Silliman

#5. Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.

John Ibbitson

#6. There are many gods ... gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones
... The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.

Rudolfo Anaya

#7. Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

Chris Murray

#8. to take steps to avoid

J.T. Edson

#9. In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?

Jamaica Kincaid

#10. Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

John Muir

#11. To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.

Jose Rizal

#12. If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. If you were never sad, you would not know how it feels to be happy. If you never had negative thoughts, you would not learn the power of positive thinking. You have to experience life to understand life.

Jeekeshen Chinnappen

#13. Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

Kurt Cobain

#14. I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

Marilyn Quayle

#15. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

Christina Aguilera

#16. It's not the governor's role to decide who goes to heaven. I believe that God decides who goes to heaven, not George W. Bush.

George W. Bush