Benjamin Thompson Quotes

Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.

Benjamin Thompson

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• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • Page
  • Spark

• I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Art
  • Weird
  • Kid

• Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Down

• No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Perspective

• I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Things
  • Matter
  • Obsessed

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• The people, the culture... there's so much magic in Colombia, so I feel like being a kid, being able to have that, being able to also call Colombia my home, it was such an important part of my introduction as an artist, too, because it's such a big part of my life as a human being.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• I don't need fighting. It's the cherry on top to this beautiful life I've been given.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Fighting

• I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

  

  Chris Messina

• I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Work
  • Pride

• I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • Funny

• U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but because of its civil rights implications, too.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Immigration

• My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She's a nightmare. The Left's holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don't need the first.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.

  

  John Jay
  • People
  • Country
  • Band

• I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Men
  • Sides
  • Street

• We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.

  

  Benjamin Thompson
  • Society
  • Individuals
  • Disgraceful