Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

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• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Evil
  • Poverty
  • Worst

• I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Man
  • See

• The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Change

• Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Small
  • Community

• America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Political
  • Middle

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • World
  • Game
  • Understanding

• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• We encourage the growth of women's hockey.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Women
  • Growth
  • Hockey

• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Man

• And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Climb

• The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Life
  • Three
  • Anchor

• When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Father
  • Want
  • Problem

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Dress
  • Nerd
  • Huge

• I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Thought
  • Down
  • Street

• In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Technology
  • Computer
  • Manipulation

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Think
  • Destiny
  • Deserve

• Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Constitution
  • Vote
  • Hangs