Peter Benchley Quotes

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.

Peter Benchley

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• I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Popular
  • Act
  • Principles

• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Things
  • Competitive
  • Poker

• I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Long
  • Country
  • Together

• The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Theory
  • Fail
  • While

• Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Know
  • Party
  • Brains

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Refuge

• I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Death
  • Lunch
  • Box

• And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • God
  • Political

• It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Comfort Zone

• The biggest challenge is that when people look at low price point products, they essentially invest less money in development, innovation, and new technology. And in order to innovate at a lower price point, and make sustainability attainable to the masses, you have to invest more. But that's counterintuitive for a lot of businesses.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Money
  • Technology

• When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Think
  • Sports
  • Brand

• She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • She

• If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Powerful

• He then gave a hideous laugh and added that, if anybody was interested in his plans, he was going to join the Foreign Legion, that cohort of the damned in which broken men may toil and die and dying, forget. ‘Beau Widgeon?’ said the Egg, impressed. ‘What ho!’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Men
  • May
  • Die

• ...it is possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Peace
  • Amazing

• I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Live
  • Alone

• He's definitely the best player in the NBA - to me. I don't know if winning the (MVP) award is important to him or not. But he has three (championship) rings and that's what it's all about.

  

  Kobe Bryant
  • Important
  • Player
  • Winning

• The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • Peace
  • Attention

• Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so too does a man incur the guilt of falsehood who, on the part of the Church, gives worship to God contrary to the manner established by the Church or divine authority, and according to ecclesiastical custom.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Church
  • Guilty

• At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Day
  • End
  • Professional

• Every time I do something in life, I try to outdo myself.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Life
  • Time

• We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.

  

  Peter Benchley