Ann Lewin-Benham Quotes

Given so much, What have I done to Deserve it? Nothing, Absolutely nothing. No wonder my heart Dances.

Ann Lewin-Benham

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• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Drawing

• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Me
  • Best
  • Speak

• Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Bad
  • Wisdom
  • Too Much

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Work
  • Death

• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Famous
  • Blue

• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • True
  • Guilt

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good Things

• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• Electricity, n. The cause of all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• There was a time when the Republican Party could discuss possible reforms to our gun laws: Ronald Reagan himself endorsed the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban that passed in 1994.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gun

• Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Women
  • Model

• Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It is a massive participation sport. You can do it as a challenge, for charity or whatever. I believe it will continue to grow, and I will look forward to that happening.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Believe
  • Challenge
  • Charity

• In any kid's relationship with their parents, there's always an influence there. You always want to do them proud.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Parents
  • Relationship
  • Proud

• 'The Driver' kind of set the tone for what I wanted to say, and lyrically, it especially did.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum

• I was just so nervous every time I was onstage. It took me many, many years to get to the point where I realized, 'All right, if I'm going to keep doing this, I've gotta remember that it's supposed to be fun. I've gotta stop putting so much pressure on myself, because otherwise, it's not worth it.' And I still am too critical of myself.

  

  Dave Franco
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Fun

• It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Party
  • Positive
  • Years

• A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Girl
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

  

  George MacDonald
  • God

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• Given so much, What have I done to Deserve it? Nothing, Absolutely nothing. No wonder my heart Dances.

  

  Ann Lewin-Benham
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Deserve