Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

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• I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Different
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Live
  • Family
  • City

• Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Live
  • Die

• I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Possible
  • Class
  • Top

• That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Society

• I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Live

• Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Soul

• It's a very strange experience being on set of 'Breaking Bad;' you never know what's coming next for your character. I feel like I don't even know if I'm going to live through the next scene I'm in. It's exciting to work on.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Work
  • Live
  • Character

• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Life
  • Live
  • Question

• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Real
  • Soul

• We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Live
  • May
  • Teacher

• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Future

• Muslims should live like brothers.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Live
  • Like
  • Brothers

• The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Reality

• 'I cannot live with myself any longer.' This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. 'Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with.' 'Maybe,' I thought, 'only one of them is real.'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Real

• If you live out of a negative identity, … others will always be cast in the mold of the enemy against whom you must struggle.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Live
  • Struggle
  • Enemy

• We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Past

• A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I do try to live a normal life.

  

  Colin Ford
  • Life
  • Live

• 'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Time
  • Family

• People of Baltimore, if you want to simply learn a new trade, if you want to join the Foundry, it's a membership. It's like joining a gym, and you can go and meet other entrepreneurs like you. You can talk about how to get financing. You can take a class on how to sew. You can take a class and say, 'I want to be an electrician.'

  

  Kevin Plank
  • People
  • Gym

• You can be predisposed genetically, but it's not a sentence. I'm genetically predisposed, but I manage my weight. The root of obesity, though, is usually emotional. The poor habits are a symptom of a deeper emotional issue.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Emotional

• Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Live
  • Possible