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

• I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Good
  • Work
  • Night

• 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

• Ed Balls

  

  Ed Balls

• 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

• Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Wonder

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

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Rebel

• People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • People
  • Different

• 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

• I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

  

  Paul Auster
  • I Can

• My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • God
  • Man
  • Form

• You should continue carrying your arms, ready to sacrifice your lives in defence against these belligerent attacks

  

  Ali Abdullah Saleh
  • Sacrifice

• Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

  

  Joan Blades
  • Long

• In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.

  

  Martin McGuinness

• 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