A. C. Benson Quotes

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

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• Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • Know

• I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Give
  • Finished

• I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Different
  • She
  • Happy

• There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Change
  • Moral
  • Nothing

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Business
  • Level
  • Reached

• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Done
  • Career
  • Comedy

• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Communication
  • Reader
  • Speed

• I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Work
  • Strong

• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Thought

• Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Day

• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Business
  • Changes

• The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Up
  • Present

• But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Wind

• Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Men
  • Help
  • Small

• It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Genius

• Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • May
  • Possible
  • Terrorism

• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Men
  • Doing
  • Ambition