Quotes About Benares

#1. I'm Raine Benares, seeker and ... " I looked up at Vegard.
"What else are people calling me now?"
The big Guardian chuckled and shook his head. "A lot of things, ma'am. Some you've heard, most you haven't, but I'm sure you could guess.

Lisa Shearin

#2. After a few minutes there was a click on the line and a voice said in Farsi,"Goh Benares roo gahbret."
This roughly translated as: "May shit rain down upon your grave."
"Goozidam too chesmet," Tom replied.
"I fart in your eye.

Mark Mills

#3. The fact remains, I was never meant to sell china. Only truly saintly men are cut out for that; the sort of men who trudge the roads to Benares, or reside on the icy hilltops speculating on infinity. It takes more faith than I can summon.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#4. Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

Ramakrishna

#5. The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.

Auguste Rodin

#6. I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

George Clooney

#7. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Morrie Schwartz.

#8. This is the war I fear.

Lord Mountbatten

#9. I have a reputation to maintain."
"Best-dressed pirate?

Lisa Shearin

#10. You'll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence," I told Pieras, by means of explanation. "The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners.

Lisa Shearin

#11. Most girls get flowers or candy. I get a declaration of martial law.

Lisa Shearin

#12. [ ... ]Let me ask around. In the meantime, you need to keep that trinket out of sight, and you need to be careful."
"I'm always careful."
Garadin gave me the look. You know the one.
"Whenever I can," I added.

Lisa Shearin

#13. Everything is true in some sense, false in some sense, and meaningless in another sense.

Camden Benares

#14. When it came to maintaining a reputation, facts were fleeting but you could ride a rumor for years.

Lisa Shearin

#15. Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

Jon Krakauer

#16. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

Eric Hoffer