Benjamin Carson Quotes

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

Benjamin Carson

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• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Life
  • Family
  • Business

• Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Love
  • Funny
  • Woman

• It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Way
  • Never
  • Writer

• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Today
  • Write
  • Give

• I don't like concrete jungles.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Like
  • Concrete

• We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • People
  • Friends
  • Church

• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Evil

• The wisdom of our ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Wisdom

• Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• Hell, that's why they make erasers.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Why

• Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Nature
  • Hand

• The untruth of the accusation, which they all knew well, only served to reinforce it ... By the logic of the high-rise those most innocent of any offence became the most guilty.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • High
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• I do not mean to discuss the question how far slavery and farming are incompatible. Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of the former.

  

  James Madison
  • Political
  • Question
  • Evil

• I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • Truth
  • Jesus

• I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • School
  • Future
  • Psychology

• When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

  

  Marla Maples
  • Good
  • Stop

• Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you don't ever come across as offensive. Nobody sees you as a threat. You see someone in a Hawaiian shirt, and you are like 'this guy is ready to party.'

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Hawaiian

• When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Author

• An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Ocean

• If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Reading