Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

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• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Think
  • Forget
  • Try

• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Love
  • Think
  • Books

• You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Winning
  • Things
  • Habit

• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

• I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Mother
  • Humor
  • Elegance

• When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • World
  • Music
  • Words

• I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Different
  • American
  • Language

• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Smile

• Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Home
  • Circle
  • Square

• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Fool
  • Fly

• There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People
  • God
  • May

• So you went looking for a myth and found a man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• Wie die Senatoren der Römer sind die wahren Künstler ein Volk von Königen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• 'My darling one....I shall be thinking of you while you are away and hope you will remember to wrap up warm when you go out at night.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Horse
  • Lady

• In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect, loving, good, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, timeless, transcendent, personal, immutable and immanent. But how can this be? Is it really possible to be both eternal and timeless? Immutable and immanent? Personal and at the same time transcendent?

  

  Alexander Waugh
  • God
  • Supreme
  • Describes

• Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as long, so being tapped to officially join the team is truly something.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Long
  • Team

• Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

  

  Betty Smith
  • People
  • Book
  • Puzzles

• I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Church
  • Vision