Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.
Quotes to Explore
-
You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
-
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
-
There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
-
My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
-
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
-
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
-
To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
-
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
-
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
-
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
-
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
-
Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
-
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
-
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
-
The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
-
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
-
I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
-
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
-
If we know human anatomy and we are reasonably intelligent, he assumes that we can figure out how to do almost anything.
-
One can never have too large a party.
-
When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'
-
Everything is as important as everything else.
-
A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man.
-
Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.
