Eric Bentley Quotes

#1. What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things ... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Constantin Brancusi

#2. Can 'love and obey' possibly go together?

Ellen Hopkins

#3. Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Eric Bentley

#4. Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#5. My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Steve Earle

#6. Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bentley

#7. After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won't need it.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. Our sin warps our understanding because we all tend toward self-justification. Studying

Tim Chester

#9. If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Eric Bentley

#10. Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

Eric Bentley

#11. If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.

John Naisbitt

#12. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Eric Bentley

#13. What do yo think human flesh tastes like?

Bill Kaulitz

#14. Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

David Baldacci

#15. A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

Eric Bentley

#16. I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

Alden Ehrenreich

#17. You put more value on every minute ... You know I always kinda thought I did that. I really always enjoyed myself. But it's more valuable now. You're reminded to enjoy every sandwich and every minute.

Warren Zevon

#18. People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.

Stephen Jay Gould

#19. And maybe, just maybe, it will.

Nicholas Sparks