Benji Madden Quotes

Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no one we had to impress.

Benji Madden Good Charlotte

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• Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Political
  • Democrat
  • Orientation

• Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Water
  • Beach
  • Illness

• The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Door

• What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Money
  • Happiness

• Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Relationships
  • Man Is
  • Tied

• I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

  

  Scoot McNairy
  • People
  • Country
  • Wife

• Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Changes
  • Folks
  • Conspiracies

• Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action.

  

  Brendan Brazier
  • Action
  • Needs
  • Changing

• Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Journey
  • Loneliness

• When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Passion
  • Task
  • Urgency

• We are tornadoes that pick up fragments with the most varied historical and biological origins. This makes of us -- thankfully -- fickle agglomerations that maintain a fragile equilibrium, that are inconsistent and complex, that can't be reduced to any fixed framework that does not inevitably leave out a great deal. Which is why the more effective stories resemble ramparts from which one can gaze out at everything that has been excluded.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Equilibrium
  • Framework
  • Great Deal

• I tell everybody that I'm a quatre-sexual: I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

  

  Merv Griffin
  • Anything
  • Anybody
  • Quarters

• Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Government
  • Devil
  • Liberties

• I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Nice
  • Technology
  • Extraordinary

• Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Scary
  • Innovation
  • Fund

• One of the major things in any dance-based reality show is how smartly you can impress the audience and keep your cool throughout the show.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Reality
  • Cool
  • Dance

• She had gone to sleep on these facts years ago, after a period of much misery, her head resting on them as on a pillow; and she had a great dread of being awakened out of so simple and untroublesome a condition. Therefore it was that she searched with earnestness for a heading under which to put Mrs. Wilkins, and in this way illumine and steady her own mind; and sitting there looking at her uneasily after her last remark, and feeling herself becoming more and more unbalanced and infected, she decided pro tem, as the vicar said at meetings, to put her under the heading Nerves. It was just possible that she ought to go straight into the category Hysteria, which was often only the antechamber to Lunacy, but Mrs. Arbuthnot had learned not to hurry people into their final categories, having on more than one occasion discovered with dismay that she had made a mistake; and how difficult it had been to get them out again, and how crushed she had been with the most terrible remorse. Yes.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Sleep
  • Mistake
  • Condition

• Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no one we had to impress.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Impress
  • No Rules
  • First Band