Benjamin Butler Quotes

Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

Benjamin Butler

• Nation
• Expect
• Almighty
• Pestilence
• Peasant

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• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Black
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• I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

  

  Larry David
  • Wanted
  • Really
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• I hate celebrities.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
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• I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Job
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• Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Music
  • School
  • Love

• Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.

  

  Randy West
  • High
  • Respect
  • Honor

• Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Goals
  • System

• To be honest, many of my well-wishers want me to play the solo lead in films. Maybe, it's time to think about it. In fact, I have cut down on signing up multi-starrer films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • Past
  • Change

• There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

  

  John Travolta
  • People
  • Stop
  • Sex

• The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Art
  • Reading
  • Fiction

• A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Customers
  • Expansion
  • Protesters

• In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Time
  • Women
  • Ways

• The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

  

  William R. Alger
  • May
  • Devil
  • Bullied

• Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Faith
  • Witness
  • Dispute

• The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Language
  • Chief
  • Detracts

• The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the dog under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Nation
  • Americans
  • Vices

• Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

  

  Benjamin Butler
  • Nation
  • Expect
  • Almighty