Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. The answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways.

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• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Bad
  • Friend
  • Lonely

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Hard Work

• With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Control
  • Trump
  • Health care

• I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Always
  • Failure
  • Rules

• I always wanted to be an ambassador.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Ambassador

• To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Like

• We're all performing for someone.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Someone
  • Performing

• If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Problem
  • Childhood
  • Obesity

• Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Situation

• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Nations
  • Many
  • Belonging

• I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Good
  • Great
  • Family

• The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Today
  • Problem

• Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Guy
  • Career
  • Road

• There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

  

  Feist
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Good
  • English
  • Educated

• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Sad

• In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

  

  George Washington
  • Adopt
  • Maxim
  • Tenets

• Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with affection. I’m really lucky to be able to be in some of these situations and it feels really nice to be able to take people along with me for the ride. Oh, and I’m a pain in the ass as well.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Pain
  • Affection
  • Ride

• I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Age
  • Me
  • King

• Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. The answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Problem
  • Ways
  • Revelation