Benjamin Smith Quotes

As human beings, we have developed a specific number of emotional reactions that are triggered by conditions or situations.

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• I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.

  

  Alex Wolff

• We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Feels
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Care
  • Teenager
  • Boys

• If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Study
  • Differences
  • Schoolmen

• In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

  

  Epictetus
  • Loose
  • In Order
  • Life's Purpose

• I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

  

  will.i.am
  • Tweet

• I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.

  

  Will Steger
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Sea

• If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Never
  • Appreciate
  • Sunshine

• I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • City
  • Desire
  • Chicago

• Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Peace
  • Best
  • Garden

• I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • College
  • Expensive
  • Stanford

• Mentally, I am very strong; physically I am very strong. I think that keeps me going. That keeps me strong all the time.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • Strong
  • Going
  • Physically

• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Language
  • Choice
  • Human Beings

• The skin cells on your nose might well be “potential human beings,” in the loose sense in which a rubber ball is a “potential eraser.” But a zygote is not a “potential human being” or a “potentially rational animal.” Rather, it is an actual human being and thus an actual rational animal, just one that hasn’t yet fully realized its inherent potentials. Harris and his ilk might want to ignore the importance of this distinction, but that it is a genuine distinction cannot rationally be denied.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Animal
  • Human Beings
  • Distinction

• As human beings, we have developed a specific number of emotional reactions that are triggered by conditions or situations.

  

  Benjamin Smith
  • Human Beings
  • Triggered
  • Emotional Reactions