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.

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually using blockchain technologies for payments and settlement rather than as an experiment.

  

  Chris Larsen
  • Thinking
  • Financial

• During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • American

• From analog film cameras to digital cameras to iPhone cameras, it has become progressively easier to take and store photographs. Today, we don't even think twice about snapping a shot.

  

  Om Malik
  • Today

• I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Faith
  • Single
  • Positive

• Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Beauty
  • Heat

• I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • Different
  • Comic Book

• Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.

  

  Anthony Wayne
  • Storm

• There are certain characters Bill Finger created, aside from my main characters' and many other characters that I created, including the Batmobile.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Characters
  • Batmobile
  • Bill Finger

• 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