Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name of Deity is enjoined in holy writ. Jesus made this clear when teaching His disciples to pray. He said, addressing the Father, "Hallowed be thy name: (see Matthew 6:9). Blaspheming the name of God separates man from his Creator."

Ezra Taft Benson

• God
• Creator
• Sins
• The Lord
• Reverence

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• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Single

• I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Different
  • Me
  • Kind

• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
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• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
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• There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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  • Idea
  • Something

• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
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• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • People
  • Country
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• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Truth Is

• If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Women
  • Stand

• I think people in power have a vested interest to oppose critical thinking.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Power

• I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.

  

  Eminem
  • Miracle
  • Bee

• But when mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill!

  

  Alexander Pope

• Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

  

  Aeschines
  • Truth
  • Strong

• When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Home
  • Stop
  • Sleep

• I try to ensure my daughters are not spoilt. They are very aware of how lucky they are and appreciate it. We have had some lean years, so they know it's not all about luxury, travel, and hotels. They are grounded, and I'm grateful for that.

  

  David Harewood
  • Travel

• Every European, every democratic person, has to condemn these people who wanted to interfere with an electoral campaign, producing suffering for hundreds of people, leaving families broken, without any objective.

  

  Javier Solana
  • People
  • Interfere
  • European

• Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Lost

• Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • God
  • Confidence

• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Love
  • Man

• During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?': Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.

  

  Anne O'Hare McCormick
  • America
  • Jews
  • Hitler

• One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence for the name of Deity is enjoined in holy writ. Jesus made this clear when teaching His disciples to pray. He said, addressing the Father, "Hallowed be thy name: (see Matthew 6:9). Blaspheming the name of God separates man from his Creator."

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Creator
  • Sins