Ben Klassen Quotes

From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.

Ben Klassen

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• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wife

• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Live
  • Always
  • Greatest

• My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Death
  • Brother

• I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Insurance
  • Accomplishment

• The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Free
  • System
  • Capitalism

• We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Support
  • Doing
  • Something

• My imagination is a twisted place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Imagination
  • Place
  • Twisted

• The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Work
  • Important
  • Love

• After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brain

• We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Freedom
  • Day
  • Name

• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Government
  • Gun

• If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • American
  • Better
  • Poverty

• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Interest

• While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Music
  • Interesting

• Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Military

• Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

  

  Max Frisch
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Destiny

• From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.

  

  Ben Klassen
  • History
  • Earth
  • Keep