Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first studying the inspired words of the prophets and using that as a foundation; against which to test all other material. This is in keeping with the Prophet Joseph Smith's motto, "When the Lord commands, do it."

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• I think we know how to do Mars.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Think
  • Know
  • Mars

• I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Choice

• My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Breakfast
  • Fish
  • Lunch

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Death
  • Night
  • Middle-class

• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Stop

• A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Home
  • View
  • Debt

• Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Drug
  • Available
  • Effective

• Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Unique
  • Persons
  • Meetings

• Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Humility

• A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.

  

  B. Traven
  • Believe
  • School
  • American

• No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Tough
  • Bread
  • Dependence

• none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Life
  • Book
  • Learning

• The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.

  

  Davis McCaughey
  • Leadership
  • Capitalism
  • Economics

• Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Death
  • Government

• First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first studying the inspired words of the prophets and using that as a foundation; against which to test all other material. This is in keeping with the Prophet Joseph Smith's motto, "When the Lord commands, do it."

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Foundation
  • Communism
  • The Lord