Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.

  

  Ted Danson
  • World
  • Organization
  • Ocean

• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Guy
  • Once
  • Magnet

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • You
  • Childhood

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • College
  • Myself
  • Medical

• I'm a political conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Conservative

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Business
  • Want
  • Soldier

• I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Money

• The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Over

• Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Consciousness

• Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Good
  • Past
  • Government

• One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Career
  • Working
  • Blessings

• I'll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Emotional
  • Honest
  • Married

• I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Past

• One morning Gordy found out that Columbia Records, previous home of the Motown group the Four Tops, was going to rerelease one of the Tops’ old records. He instructed his top team at the time, Holland-Dozier-Holland, to produce a response, and by early afternoon they’d come up with “It’s the Same Old Song.” The track was recorded later the same day; the record was in stores three days later. It reached number five on the charts and became a classic.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Records
  • Response
  • Reached

• Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Know
  • Looking

• In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Business
  • Job
  • Age

• Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Blessed
  • Choose
  • Actions