Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Time
  • Actor

• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Knowledge
  • Pride
  • Temptation

• I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • City
  • Chicago

• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • May
  • Age
  • Die

• My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Writing
  • Family

• Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Real
  • Technology
  • Architecture

• Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Time
  • Different
  • Mind

• I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Imagine
  • Economic theory
  • Socialistic

• I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Speak
  • Praying
  • Jealous

• If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you – I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, "Be original!" but I didn't understand until I changed to be like everyone else.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • School
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.

  

  Katie Louchheim
  • Men
  • Boys

• When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • New York
  • London
  • Warm

• This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Night
  • Quiet
  • Meetings

• When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of God. There was fruitfulness and joy in it, and it followed the Creator's own plan for continuing the human race.

  

  Naomi Ragen
  • Married
  • Shame
  • Human Race

• 9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Afraid

• One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Sins
  • Profanity
  • Name Of God