Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

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• The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Future
  • Humanity

• I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Problem
  • Eat
  • Too Much

• I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • You
  • Childhood

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Why
  • May
  • Book

• If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Virtue
  • Would
  • Headache

• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Twins

• In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Day
  • Name

• I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Reality
  • My Life

• The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Proud
  • Pleasure
  • Fact

• The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

  

  Jason Alexander

• Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.

  

  Charlie Bell
  • Life

• The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Food

• It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Family
  • Goal

• The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

  

  Ed Murray
  • Opportunity
  • Change
  • Learn

• One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

  

  H. L. Mencken

• And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Man
  • Brave
  • Sins

• I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.

  

  Anis Mojgani
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Goals
  • Choose
  • Great Deal