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

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

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Quality
  • Fighting
  • Player

• 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

• I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • People
  • Television
  • International

• What's really striking here is that a candidate who ran as the Paladin of the working class who'd deliver them picks a guy who heads a fast-food company, [Donald] Trump says he wants to bring back manufacturing.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Food

• When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Food
  • Understand

• Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Weekend

• 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