Disinterested Benevolence Quotes

#1. Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.

Phillip Adams

#2. The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it 2540 is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion:

The Catholic Church

#3. If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome.

Belinda Jeffrey

#4. Cody cut into a huge wedge of pie and gave some thought to food
to its inexplicable, loaded meaning in other people's lives. Couldn't you classify a person, he wondered, purely by examining his attitude toward food?

Anne Tyler

#5. What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

Sara Gruen

#6. Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.

R. J. Rushdooney

#7. Pak sabar adalah suami bu menanti.
mr patient is the husband of mrs waiting.

Toba Beta

#8. We sleep bent into pretzel shapes, our limbs arranged around our pets because we'd rather make an appointment with the chiropractor than disturb their purring slumber.

Meg Lambourne

#9. What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

Terence McKenna

#10. She could feel the heat from his body behind her. It radiated from his chest to her shoulder blades. The silk of his bow tie brushed against her hair, penetrating it, until it grazed across the surface of her neck, causing it to explode into goose-pimples.

Sylvain Reynard

#11. Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.

Robert Grosseteste

#12. If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

William Shakespeare

#13. g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois

Debois

#14. May the soul of the late President Milton Obote ... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

Yoweri Museveni

#15. Einstein's claim that change is an illusion. Things do not become, they have not been, and they will not be: They simply are.

A.A. Attanasio