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 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

• If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • People
  • Culture
  • Kind

• To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Bad

• ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Country
  • Government
  • Christ

• The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Stupidity
  • Sins

• 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