Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

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• Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Wisdom
  • Moral
  • Practical

• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Superhero

• People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • People
  • War
  • Lie

• In my opinion, if you only show quality but no fighting spirit, you are half a player.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Quality
  • Fighting
  • Player

• A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Long
  • Boat

• The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

  

  Frederick Jackson Turner
  • American
  • Free

• A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.

  

  Khalid
  • Happy
  • Lonely

• I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

  

  Marianne Faithfull

• I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Tears

• We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • People
  • Small

• I had fallen in love with photography and was making a living doing photographic features for publications such as 'Picture Post,' 'Paris Match' and 'Life' magazine. But in 1939, I saw a huge headline, which I think was in the 'Sunday Express.' It said, 'Danzig - Danger Point of Europe.' I packed up my Leica, got on a train, and went.

  

  Douglas Slocombe
  • Life
  • Up
  • Picture

• There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Culture

• On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Power
  • Jesus

• My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

  

  John Clare
  • Death

• We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Environment

• You're an asshole! You're an asshole! That's right! You're an asshole! You're an asshole! Yes yes!

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Asshole

• The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • People

• I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Art
  • Brain
  • Poetry

• The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them to exercise their rights and make choices in their lives is crucial. It is at the heart of human development!

  

  Babatunde Osotimehin
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Environment

• Virtue proceeds through effort.

  

  Euripides
  • Effort
  • Virtue
  • Proceeds

• My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Existence

• The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Effort
  • Strive
  • The Lord