Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassin g. It is no lukewarm endeavor. It is total commitment of our very being-physicall y, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually-to a love of the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • World
  • May
  • Peace

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• 'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Tired
  • Year

• People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• America’s media seem utterly lacking in introspection. Do they understand why so many people hate them so? Do they care? Are they so smugly self-righteous and self-regarding they cannot see?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • God
  • Power
  • High

• Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Forever

• To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Wish
  • Wisdom

• We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • People
  • Cancer
  • Addiction

• I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Age

• It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Lost

• As the world continues its love affair with smartphones and tablets, mobile has become so essential to our lives that most people couldn't imagine life without it.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Life

• And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Believe
  • Acting

• I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Life
  • Success
  • Failure

• All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music
  • Long
  • Practice

• All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Why
  • Romantic
  • U.S.

• We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Matter
  • Return
  • Elements

• To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassin g. It is no lukewarm endeavor. It is total commitment of our very being-physicall y, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually-to a love of the Lord.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Soul
  • Commitment
  • Emotionally