Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

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• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Anniversary
  • Her
  • Buried

• My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Vision
  • United States
  • Truck

• We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Time
  • Live
  • Listening

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Always
  • Show
  • Most

• Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Military

• If the rat had not looked over his shoulder, perhaps his heart would not have broken. And it is possible, then, that I would not have a story to tell. But, reader, he did look.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Heart
  • Broken

• All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Smile

• Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Childhood

• Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

  

  Aeschines
  • Truth
  • Strong

• I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People

• Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Rebel

• I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.

  

  Alex Pettyfer
  • Different
  • Done
  • Pretty

• Kickstarter was already up and going when I got the Fellowship. Spending time with the other Fellows was about camaraderie, and I talked to a lot of amazing and creative people.

  

  Perry Chen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties.

  

  Dario Argento
  • School
  • She
  • Remember

• What's more difficult than knowing there's an effective treatment for your children, but you can't afford to offer it to them because it's not covered by insurance?

  

  Elizabeth Emken
  • Children
  • Insurance

• Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Future

• The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore, I think this is the time to put some restrictions on it.

  

  J. James Exon
  • Time
  • Revolution

• I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • True

• My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Fun
  • Horse
  • Skiing

• Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Father
  • Wish

• Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Counsel