Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Trust

• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Sometimes
  • Competitive

• I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Hate

• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Power
  • Learned
  • Market

• It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Up
  • Game
  • Beautiful

• If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Find

• We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Freedom
  • Pay
  • Price

• Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Universe
  • Rich
  • Window

• The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Up
  • Country
  • Day

• I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Woman
  • First
  • Step

• You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Movie
  • You
  • Happen

• Before the phantom of False morning died, Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried, 'When all the Temple is prepared within, Why nods the drowsy Worshipper outside?'

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • Morning

• When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

  

  Lisa Randall
  • World
  • Explore

• No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Doubt

• Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World

• My favourite 'stage' of Shakira was the brunette punk rock one, but she'll always have a special place in my heart, whatever she's doing.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Heart
  • She
  • Rock

• You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Time
  • Business

• I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Perception

• How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Art
  • Character

• I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Real
  • Character
  • Funny

• Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Reality
  • Need
  • Writer

• Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Character
  • Destiny
  • Habits