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 -
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 -
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 -
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher -
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 -
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
Saint Ambrose
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If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.
Anne Bronte -
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
Tiger Woods -
The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic.
Ernest Belfort Bax -
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.
Ezra Taft Benson