Benjamin Carson Quotes

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

Benjamin Carson

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• I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Turn

• My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Father
  • House
  • Death

• How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Battle

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Morning

• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Business
  • Power

• 'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Broken

• You’ve been a father to me.Your 1960’s speak.Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.While the mountainside was shining.Wild colors of my destiny

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Father
  • Joy
  • Destiny

• A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • Men
  • Long
  • Powerful

• The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Rebel

• Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Money
  • Business
  • Power

• Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

  

  James Carville
  • Remember
  • House

• It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.

  

  Marly Youmans
  • Children
  • War
  • True

• I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Same
  • Speech

• They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

  

  David Sedaris
  • People

• Love is so irrational and it's not so easy to start all over again after you had given everything to a relationship.

  

  Eros Ramazzotti
  • Relationship
  • Love Is
  • Irrational

• I had faith that music would be able to take me somewhere. I didn't know where. I just was like, 'Keep having faith, and any doors that open, I'll walk through them and see what happens from there.'

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Music
  • Faith

• Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

  

  George Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Trust
  • Wonder

• These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Faith
  • Trust