Brook Benton Quotes

#1. In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.

Ben E. King

#2. Chastity by no means signifies rejection of human sexuality or lack of esteem for it: rather it signifies spiritual energy capable of defending love from the perils of selfishness and aggressiveness, and able to advance it towards its full realization.

Pope John Paul II

#3. It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

C.S. Lewis

#4. The pain is real. Flowing as a brook beneath my flesh. I am broken, and yet, I still breathe.

E.M. Benton

#5. Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Nora Roberts

#6. Astrology is a disease, not a science.

Maimonides

#7. Lord, I believe it's raining all over the world.

Brook Benton

#8. Your power, your great gift, is that you never give up. When something fails you make a new plan, and another, and another. You never accept defeat. You never give up.

A.C. Gaughen

#9. Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me, then I won't feel so bad.

Brook Benton

#10. Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.

Loretta Chase

#11. She didn't want him to speak, she was suddenly not even sure he *meant* to speak. It occurred to her, strangely, that he might sing.
"Don't." Her command was sharp.
He didn't

Marie Rutkoski

#12. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.

Jenny Lawson

#13. Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

Evangeline Lilly

#14. Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked if I would come back to the show. Which was awesome.

Austin Peck

#15. People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

Matthea Harvey

#16. I want you. Tell me how I can have you.

Ella Frank

#17. I don't think God's through with me. I really believe he thinks there's still some good things I can do.

Cate Edwards

#18. One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.

Brook Benton

#19. The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.

Pope Francis