Bentley Little Quotes

His father’s punishments were driven by disappointment, partly in the boy, mostly in himself.

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• Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Life
  • Free
  • My Life

• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Fire
  • Safety
  • Year

• My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Women
  • Job
  • Opportunities

• I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Money
  • Comedy

• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • American
  • Think
  • Myself

• I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Stress
  • Prejudice

• When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Done
  • Want
  • Career

• Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Song

• At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Career
  • Start
  • Along

• Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Study

• This problem is the most difficult and the last to be solved by mankind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Problem
  • Mankind
  • Solved

• He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Soul
  • Evil

• I try and keep an ear out and keep an open mind and enjoy something where I don't know what the hell is going on inside of it. That's what I really get out of it. Because to me it's new. That's what I get out of it. That joyful feeling of you don't know what's going to happen next.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• We have to say yes to socialism - to the word and everything ... Medicare for all, ending student debt, a different approach to the war on terror, ending mass incarceration.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • Different
  • War

• I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Heart

• Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Friend

• I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?

  

  Jasmine Guinness
  • Horse

• ...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Ideas
  • Individual
  • Crush

• His father’s punishments were driven by disappointment, partly in the boy, mostly in himself.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Boy
  • Disappointment
  • Punishments