Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Lucky

• Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Humor
  • Hilarious
  • Event

• I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Source
  • Joys

• The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Value
  • Service

• One of my greatest joys is when someone like your wife takes one idea or one piece of a recipe and does it her way. That's what I'm encouraging.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Wife
  • Idea
  • Encouraging

• Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Value
  • Stability
  • Endure

• Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • Good
  • Church

• Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Today
  • Experiences

• Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.

  

  Dale Evans
  • God
  • Gift
  • Priceless

• Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

  

  William Blake
  • Sorrows
  • Joys
  • Impregnate

• O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

  

  John Milton
  • Paradise
  • Joys
  • Fleeting

• I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long while, Being but a part of ancient ceremony Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Long
  • Dog
  • Forgiveness

• A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Fears
  • Joys
  • Dramas

• Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Feelings
  • Goodness
  • Moved

• But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Wife
  • Enemy
  • Forgive

• Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Hope
  • Pleasure
  • Warrior

• There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Life
  • Consider
  • Priceless

• The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Joys

• He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Hurt
  • Tree

• You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Play
  • Artist
  • Separates

• Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Summer
  • Behavior
  • Clouds

• For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Character
  • Way
  • Responsibility

• The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Joys
  • Priceless
  • Fellowship