Quotes of Robert Benchley

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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

- Robert Benchley

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“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ One chooses who they decide to love but never determines who will love them back. The woman’s first two considerations are respect and financial security which centers on the core of personality traits; a man reveres persona of physical and sexuality; these two impostors have little relevance of character. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ To the wellorganized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ”

- Erich Segal

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ The pillow looked astonished, wondering what ended the late night river that used to run through it, but only he knows that she is the reason ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson