Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Church
  • Ignorance

• Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Opinion
  • Alien

• I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Myself
  • Stage

• My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Father
  • Right
  • Said

• My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • People
  • Mother
  • Funny

• I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it.

  

  Wale
  • Sometimes
  • Mouth
  • Admit

• Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Negative
  • Feedback

• It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Deep
  • Financial

• It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Grow up, brother. Pack your bags, go somewhere you matter. They deserve nothing. They're not Magdalenes. You're just a bum among them. You're looking for the poor man within? Why don't you humble yourself at the feet of the rich for once? Or does your God just love useless people?

  

  Colum McCann
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Motivated

• Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

  

  Jared Polis

• I'm huge fan of 'Timeflies.'

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW

• The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.

  

  Andy Dunn

• I auditioned for Roosevelt in 'The Winds of War,' but Ralph Bellamy got the role.

  

  Franklin Cover
  • War

• Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth, Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Earth
  • Forget
  • Mountain

• A Cherubim or leader of a kingdom of angels is the fountain or heart of his whole kingdom, and is made out of all the powers out of which his angels are made, and is the most powerful and the brightest of them all.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Heart
  • Powerful

• Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

  

  Emile Zola
  • Nice
  • Humans
  • Civilization

• One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Satisfied

• I was alone. I was made of stone. You took me home. We’ve built a world, a world for us. We flew like birds, a new beginning.

  

  Alesso
  • World
  • Alone
  • Beginning

• The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson