Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

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• Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Finish

• 'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Imagination
  • Same
  • Minds

• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Friendship
  • Mask

• 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

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • News

• 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

• Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Money
  • Want
  • Fight

• Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • Idea
  • Everyone
  • India

• There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Want
  • Words
  • Question

• 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

• My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Born

• 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

• Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Couple
  • Failure
  • Yes

• When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Knowledge
  • Positive
  • Examine

• I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the way. So that is part of the reason I love to read so much.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Option

• She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

  

  Elsa Lanchester
  • She

• I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.

  

  Ander Crenshaw
  • Words
  • Leadership

• Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • History
  • Hand

• As a woman, it's nice to hear people at the stage door say, 'I didn't even know! She's a woman, and that's the most amazing thing'.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • People
  • She
  • Nice

• After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.

  

  Pedro Pierluisi
  • Exercise
  • Spanish

• I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Up
  • You
  • Food

• I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Myself
  • Same
  • Mistakes

• Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Goals
  • Efforts