Benveniste Erskine Quotes

#1. (Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Blaise Pascal

#2. So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.

Tracy Morgan

#3. After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said
The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love.
And somehow I'm still alive.

Carole Maso

#4. I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#6. The modern preacher who devotes his energies to church administration, to counseling, and to preaching sermons to people, most of whom have already obeyed the Gospel, has no close parallel in the church of the first century.

Jack P. Lewis

#7. You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

Mark Caine

#8. Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.

William Wells Brown

#9. Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact ... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

Carl Jung

#10. On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Nelson Mandela

#11. Toronto is a city that has yet to fall in love with itself ...

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

#12. Holy cow!" I said. "You can't go to the door like that!" "My gun's in the kitchen." "Yes, but your underwear's on the floor in my bedroom!" And that wasn't the biggest problem.

Janet Evanovich

#13. You have only to feel the sacred music of your soul, to dance.

Connie Bowen

#14. Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

Emma Thompson