Robert Hugh Benson Quotes

#1. There is only one thing to be done," went on the old lady, "be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.

Robert Hugh Benson

#2. You have to be possessive about who you love

Sushant Singh Rajput

#3. A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

Ben Horowitz

#4. I hate goofballs.

Sargent Shriver

#5. Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow.

Mellody Hobson

#6. I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

Jessie J.

#7. Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

Robert Hugh Benson

#8. I must not take this or that doctrine by itself; but I must make up my mind whether or no it is the one only Catholic Church, and then I shall believe all that she teaches, because she teaches it, and not because I understand it.

Robert Hugh Benson

#9. The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Honore De Balzac

#10. I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

Robert Hugh Benson

#11. It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent ... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

Robert Hugh Benson

#12. Every code must be reversed; every barrier thrown down; party must unite with party, country with country, and continent with continent.

Robert Hugh Benson

#13. I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

Richard Sherman

#14. Yes," he said, "in one sense, of course it is
utterly unreasonable.

Robert Hugh Benson

#15. I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.

Thomas P. Campbell

#16. The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

Robert Hugh Benson

#17. The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

Robert Hugh Benson

#18. Don't forget to vote.

Frank Zappa

#19. Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.

Robert Hugh Benson

#20. A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied.

Robert Hugh Benson

#21. So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

Garth Stein

#22. It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

Robert Hugh Benson

#23. And now, you till come,

Robert Hugh Benson

#24. You can only fight the way you practice

Miyamoto Musashi

#25. Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.

Robert Hugh Benson

#26. You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

Robert Hugh Benson

#27. As with a child, to commune with Athena demands a level of openness and intuition greater than that used in the usual discourse between adult humans of a common culture.

Sy Montgomery

#28. For where men have made the earth that is trodden underfoot, and have largely veiled the heavens themselves, it is but natural that they should think that they have made everything, and that it is they who rule it.

Robert Hugh Benson

#29. Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.

Robert Hugh Benson

#30. No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.

Andrew Sean Greer

#31. Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

Robert Hugh Benson

#32. Because if there was one thing Cress knew about heroes, it was that they could not resist a damsel in distress.
And she was nothing if not in distress.

Marissa Meyer