Benjamin Stillingfleet Quotes

Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.

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• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Love
  • Career
  • Acting

• Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Clear
  • Voting

• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Mission
  • Linda

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Name

• To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Once
  • Criminal
  • Disgrace

• Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Family
  • Business
  • Mother

• We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Me
  • More
  • Towns

• I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Player
  • Basketball
  • Favorite

• If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Think
  • Entrepreneur
  • Box

• My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Phone

• There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • You
  • Shoes

• Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Important
  • Song
  • Artist

• I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Work
  • Book
  • Power

• Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Desire
  • Taken
  • Mood

• Mumbai is a spider web. You do a film and make 10 connections and do something else and make 10 more connections. You keep moving like that.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Film
  • Connections
  • Spider Web

• Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Imagination

• The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • God
  • Respect

• Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.

  

  Benjamin Stillingfleet
  • Self
  • Scale
  • Gap