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.

Ezra Taft Benson

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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

• 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

• The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Sleep

• They did some things early on in there that threw us some curve balls. On defense, they did a real good coaching job on that part. We had to kind of struggle to get things going again, but we did control the ball, which is a big deal.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Real
  • Job

• The one thing you can control is effort.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Control
  • Effort

• About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.

  

  Marcia Muller
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• Effort makes you. You will regret someday if you don’t do your best now. Don’t think it’s too late but keep working on it. It may take time, but there’s nothing that gets worse due to practising. So practise. You may get depressed, but its evidence that you are doing good.

  

  Jungkook BTS
  • Time
  • Good
  • Effort

• Walking on eggshells is what stupid people call the effort required not to offend someone. For smart people, not offending takes no effort.

  

  Amanda Filipacchi
  • People
  • Effort
  • Offending

• 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