If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.


William Bennett

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
ALDO LEOPOLD
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT
Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our ...
SRI CHINMOY
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is no...
NHAT HANH
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is no...
THICH NHAT HANH
If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...
when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
The value of routine; trusting your swing.
LORII MYERS
I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy ...
AL SHARPTON
Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY
Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
JENNIFER SCHMIDT
Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER
Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA
Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN
I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI
If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER
Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE
All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our fathe...
BLACK KETTLE
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing tri...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
CHARLES LUCKMAN
If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity ...
THICH NHAT HANH
There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA
37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken.
JOHN LEACH
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., ou...
THICH NHAT HANH
Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be c...
YUSUF ISLAM
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
PAULO COELHO
East Africa is an island of peace and stability surrounded by a neighborhood that is bedeviled with ...
BENJAMIN MKAPA
To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, y...
THOMAS FORAN
It is our view and the collective view of all the advisors that we surrounded ourselves with that th...
MIKE ROBERTS
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity ...
PENN JILLETTE
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT
When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M
We don't feel at ease here: we are surrounded by too much beauty
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think ...
SANDRO VERONESI
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ...
LARRY MCMURTRY
Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
JULIE KAGAWA
Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou...
JENNIFER BROWN
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then l...
RICHARD BRANSON
28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be c...
CAT STEVENS
Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to ma...
JEFFREY STEPAKOFF
Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO
Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant!

If you can honestly say that you are fully awar...
LORII MYERS
Remove the temptation to settle for anything short of what you deserve.
LORII MYERS
Your desire to succeed must overpower your fear of failure!
LORII MYERS
We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
The perfect home is your home ... whatever it is and however you choose to make it so. You are surro...
JOSEPH CARROLL
So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark thin...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Don't worry, don't panic.
MONIKA JOANNA ORAWIEC
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
To make mistakes in life is a natural reoccurrence, but what if the mistakes we make are not learned...
GARY F EVANS...
If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
SOTONYE ANGA
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich peo...
ALAIN BOTTON
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich peo...
ALAIN DE BOTTON
Move forward doesn´t mean avoiding the pain,
but look towards a new day in spite of the rain.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD
We know our employees and customers want to give, and we are helping to make it easy for them,
BRAD ANDERSON
Our entire premise is simplifying this. We've taken away claim forms and paperwork. We make it easy,...
MARIAN CUTLER
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM
Stars look like people to me... They are surrounded by darkness... But they all gather together and ...
SS038NICK
Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ...
GENERAL JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT
If the comptroller comes back and adjusts it, we will too. I think we're all impacted by it, so we'r...
BOBBY BURNS
All this may seem trivial, but football is what we do, and that's what our jobs are.
DAVID HANSEN
I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it ...
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD
35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON
Why things are not easy? * 'Cause life is not.
MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity ...
THICH NHAT HANH
What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN
Ah,” Sean said, smothering a laugh. “The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I’d seen that...
MAUREEN CHILD
Percentages are relative to what's going on out on the court, and if we miss an easy shot, our kids ...
JOE CURL
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can ...
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates...
MAHMOUD DARWISH
He just loved to dance and made sure we learned to dance too. We grew up surrounded by all kinds of ...
CONNIE HOPKINS
We live with this horror and are surrounded by this horror.
ROBERTO BENIGNI

More William Bennett

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and mora...
WILLIAM BENNETT
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
WILLIAM BENNETT
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and nev...
WILLIAM BENNETT
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task t...
WILLIAM BENNETT
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop t...
WILLIAM BENNETT
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government pr...
WILLIAM BENNETT
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad m...
WILLIAM BENNETT
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
WILLIAM BENNETT
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking child...
WILLIAM BENNETT
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality ser...
WILLIAM BENNETT
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
WILLIAM BENNETT
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching...
WILLIAM BENNETT
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu...
WILLIAM BENNETT
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility an...
WILLIAM BENNETT
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
WILLIAM BENNETT
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
WILLIAM BENNETT
I was putting forward a hypothetical proposition ... and then said about it, it was morally reprehen...
WILLIAM BENNETT
The current controversy that has arisen around comments I made on my radio show, based on a willful ...
WILLIAM BENNETT
If Senator Lott can provide a satisfactory explanation for his statement, this entire episode should...
WILLIAM BENNETT
We've got to have candor and talk about these things while we reject wild hypotheses,
WILLIAM BENNETT
If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them wha...
WILLIAM BENNETT
an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. ...
WILLIAM BENNETT
Some of us in college, some of us in high school, you know, did things that we weren't particularly ...
WILLIAM BENNETT
If it comes across that Clinton is weaseling the law and obscuring the truth, I think he's in more t...
WILLIAM BENNETT
an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do.
WILLIAM BENNETT
In my position it is hard to say exactly how many students are affected but certainly a significant ...
WILLIAM BENNETT
Our Transportation Department has followed the progress of the union contract negotiations closely s...
WILLIAM BENNETT
Anytime you have a strike it is a difficult situation and we hope an agreement can be reached quickl...
WILLIAM BENNETT
[America has a serious drug problem, he says, but it's not the manufacture and use of methamphetamin...
WILLIAM BENNETT
pointing out that abortion should not be opposed for economic reasons any more than racism ... shoul...
WILLIAM BENNETT
The Irish say, you know, 'the merry-hearted boys make the best of all men,'
WILLIAM BENNETT
On their face, the recent comments of Sen. Trent Lott are offensive, repugnant and inimical to what ...
WILLIAM BENNETT
You could ... abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.
WILLIAM BENNETT
I was putting forward a bad argument in order to put it down, ... They reported and emphasized only ...
WILLIAM BENNETT
He will throw it right back in their faces. He knows more about it than they do. He's spent more tim...
WILLIAM BENNETT
I don't think people have the right to be angry, if they look at the whole thing. But if they get a ...
WILLIAM BENNETT
What you are going to see (Monday), I take it, is an unrehearsed president, a president without make...
WILLIAM BENNETT
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. Bu...
WILLIAM BENNETT
Yes, I do [feel that the University has dealt with this situation well]. All eight of our buses are ...
WILLIAM BENNETT
If it comes across that Clinton is weaseling the law and obscuring the truth, I think he's in more t...
WILLIAM BENNETT
There are no mental jobs, only mental attitudes.
WILLIAM BENNETT
If I were a Jew watching what CNN just led in with, I might be a little upset, too. But CNN doesn't ...
WILLIAM BENNETT
But that's not what I advocate.
WILLIAM BENNETT
every black baby in this country.
WILLIAM BENNETT
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
WILLIAM J. BENNETT
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu...
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe...
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT
Oh those little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet use. Oh, the price w...
WILLIAM COX BENNETT
Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But wh...
TONY BENNETT
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
BENNETT CERF
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT
I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT
I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT
I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT
It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.
TONY BENNETT
If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
BO BENNETT
When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
BO BENNETT
Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.
BO BENNETT
An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
BO BENNETT
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
BO BENNETT
Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.
BO BENNETT
Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
BO BENNETT
A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
BO BENNETT
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master...
BO BENNETT
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
BO BENNETT
Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.
BO BENNETT
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
BO BENNETT
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
MANU BENNETT
The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
MANU BENNETT
I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
MANU BENNETT
To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.
MANU BENNETT
Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.
MANU BENNETT
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the ba...
MANU BENNETT
If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it a...
MANU BENNETT
The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are star...
MANU BENNETT
I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at sch...
MANU BENNETT
I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.
NAFTALI BENNETT
Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the...
NAFTALI BENNETT
I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equat...
NAFTALI BENNETT
I love the people of Israel. I love the land of Israel. I love the Torah of Israel. I love the Israe...
NAFTALI BENNETT
Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young peopl...
NAFTALI BENNETT
When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
NAFTALI BENNETT
Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
NAFTALI BENNETT
There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own...
NAFTALI BENNETT
What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, thro...
NAFTALI BENNETT
I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates th...
NAFTALI BENNETT
There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.
NAFTALI BENNETT
You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be...
NAFTALI BENNETT
The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlemen...
NAFTALI BENNETT
I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
NAFTALI BENNETT
Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its bor...
NAFTALI BENNETT
You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
NAFTALI BENNETT
I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni...
NAFTALI BENNETT
The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
NAFTALI BENNETT
Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerla...
NAFTALI BENNETT
The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hop...
NAFTALI BENNETT
Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as...
NAFTALI BENNETT
The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
NAFTALI BENNETT
Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, ...
BO BENNETT
To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, presen...
BO BENNETT
If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employe...
BO BENNETT
It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing...
BO BENNETT
In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.
BO BENNETT
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
BO BENNETT
Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
BENNETT CERF
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it p...
ALAN BENNETT
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key
ALAN BENNETT
Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key
ALAN BENNETT
This symposium will highlight the surprisingly diverse and positive role that cocoa can potentially ...
ALAN BENNETT
I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not som...
HALEY BENNETT
I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
HALEY BENNETT
I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.
HALEY BENNETT
I prefer clean silhouettes that are almost utilitarian, but I'm not afraid to take risks on the ...
HALEY BENNETT
I want to have a long career.
HALEY BENNETT
I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
HALEY BENNETT
I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. ...
HALEY BENNETT
I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent st...
HALEY BENNETT
I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ...
HALEY BENNETT
I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's li...
HALEY BENNETT
When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrenc...
HALEY BENNETT
I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
HALEY BENNETT
I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
HALEY BENNETT
I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
HALEY BENNETT
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way t...
HALEY BENNETT
Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and ...
HALEY BENNETT
We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
HALEY BENNETT
I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
HALEY BENNETT
I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
HALEY BENNETT
I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
HALEY BENNETT
As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
BECK BENNETT
I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
BECK BENNETT
Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They&#...
BECK BENNETT
I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.
BECK BENNETT
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who ha...
BECK BENNETT
Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 The reason that the Ten Commandments...
DAN BENNETT
The visitor never really engaged with the story the way we would do today in terms of living history...
ALEXANDER BENNETT
Our mission is to restore the site to that condition, in 1746. That clearly means some fairly major ...
ALEXANDER BENNETT
All these years in the Highlands & Islands, nobody has delved into this area. People have written ab...
ALEXANDER BENNETT
The visitor never really engaged with the story the way we would do today â€â�...
ALEXANDER BENNETT
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of lo...
ALAN BENNETT
When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them wor...
ROY BENNETT
Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.
ROY BENNETT
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations bui...
ROY BENNETT
Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
ROY BENNETT
Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and ...
ROY BENNETT
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.
ROY BENNETT
To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.
ROY BENNETT
Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.
ROY BENNETT
People are successful because they think and act like successful people.
ROY BENNETT
Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
ROY BENNETT
Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.
ROY BENNETT
When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes an...
ROY BENNETT
We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses...
ROY BENNETT
If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your c...
ROY BENNETT
Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Y...
ROY BENNETT
There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, ne...
ROY BENNETT
The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive.
ROY BENNETT
Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happie...
ROY BENNETT
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
JILL BENNETT
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous...
BO BENNETT
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be...
ARNOLD BENNETT
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the mag...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results i...
BO BENNETT
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In...
ALAN BENNETT
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valua...
BO BENNETT
It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparin...
BO BENNETT
I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an...
TONY BENNETT
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows...
ARNOLD BENNETT
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a...
ARNOLD BENNETT
The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods ...
ARNOLD BENNETT
We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's var...
ARNOLD BENNETT
A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Al...
ARNOLD BENNETT
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world...
ARNOLD BENNETT
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv...
ARNOLD BENNETT
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
TONY BENNETT
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
ARNOLD BENNETT