Benny & Joon Quotes

#1. I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

Gary Weiss

#2. I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

John Tavener

#3. Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

Plato

#4. The damned had been given that insight which makes hardship so easy to bear - the absolute and certain knowledge that things could be worse.

Terry Pratchett

#5. I reached for her through the darkness, but she was gone. Like dominoes folding over, the rest of the mirrors collapsed down on top of me. The impact caused the world around me to vanish.

Ada Adams

#6. It's the dying that makes the living matter.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#7. Whatever I have to do to help us win, I'll do.

Chris Paul

#8. You either go into this believing God's in control or you go in shaking in your boots. I'm grabbing hold of the whole God-thing.

Ruth Logan Herne

#9. For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.

Alex Berenson

#10. The truly great are, in my view, always bound to feel a great sense of sadness during their time upon earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

Eric Schmidt

#12. From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

Muhammad Iqbal

#13. A soul can be saved. But it will take softness and depth and space. The world won't help much.

John Ortberg

#14. Is a universe of discrete material particles possible only with one specific set of natural laws and parameter values? In other words, does human imagination, which can conceive of other laws and values, thereby exceed possible existence?

Edward O. Wilson

#15. Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

Oprah Winfrey