Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ’s modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you—it should.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Lives

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• I don't really yell at people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Really
  • Yell

• Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Communication

• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Men
  • Years
  • Born

• Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Animals

• I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Sometimes
  • Hands
  • Happen

• The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Know
  • Judge
  • Writer

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Violence
  • View

• I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Mind
  • Book

• On the retail side, I particularly want to emphasize the use of the unique ID, Aadhaar, in building individual credit histories. This will be the foundation of a revolution in retail credit.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Unique
  • Revolution

• …jumped-up commercials pretending, too late, to be the ruling class..

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up

• Death does determine life.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Life
  • Death

• I'm constantly progressing. My style is changing every day.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Style

• Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

  

  James Sanborn
  • School
  • Book
  • High

• I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Life
  • Different
  • School

• The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

  

  Bill Mauldin
  • Great
  • God
  • Children

• This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • God
  • Done

• One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.

  

  Charles Caldwell Ryrie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Circumstances

• Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

  

  Epicurus
  • Life
  • Wise

• The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell them. They smell that beautiful perfume; they follow that smell. That perfume creates a yearning in their hearts for their Lord, and as a result the sincere believers increase their pace, efforts and devotions.

  

  Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi
  • World
  • True
  • Beautiful

• Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ’s modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you—it should.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Church
  • Changed
  • Missionary work