Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.Ezra Taft Benson
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov -
The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
Jack Lemmon -
I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
Karl Pilkington -
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
Jacki Weaver -
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
Randy Falco
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
Bailee Madison -
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
Edmund Hillary -
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
Barbara Boxer -
The language of ideas creates a different universe: a universe which has multiplied the monkey's vocabulary of forty words to the million words in the English dictionary.
Jacob Bronowski -
The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
Jack McDevitt -
Nature is one. There is only one truth in life. We have a single universe, which has a sole creator.
Amitabh Bachchan
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Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.
Jacob Rothschild -
I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.
Christy Turlington -
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
Andre Balazs -
I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I'm going to give back. I was born and raised here. I'm a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.
Ben McLemore -
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
Nell Freudenberger -
We all are just people, and something happens, and we make a decision as a result when something happens, and it could be a poor choice or a good choice or anywhere in between. But we make that decision in the moment, and we live with the consequences.
Clare-Hope Ashitey
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You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.
Bonnie Hammer -
Who are you and who am I To say we know the reason why Some are born, some men die, Beneath one infinite sky? There'll be war, there'll be peace, But everything one day will cease, All the iron turned to rust, All the proud men turned to dust, And so all things time will mend, So this song will end.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.
B. C. Forbes -
Night was running ahead of itself.
Jorge Amado -
Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.
Oswald Chambers -
Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.
Ezra Taft Benson