William Gurney Benham Quotes

He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.

William Gurney Benham

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• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Important
  • Greatest

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Fashion
  • Woman
  • Fat

• Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

  

  David Chalmers
  • Sympathy

• Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

  

  Joe Davis
  • Study
  • Thoughts
  • Humble

• I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • Parents

• Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.

  

  Clarissa Ward
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Why

• With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • World
  • Good
  • Interesting

• Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

  

  Dave Reichert
  • Work
  • Immigration

• Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

• L'homme est ainsi bâti: Quand un sujet l'enflammeL'impossibilité disparaît à son âme.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • Son

• I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Belief

• You're always allowed to be better.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Always
  • Better

• The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• None of us gets through life alone. We all have to look out for each other and lift each other up.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Alone

• Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be. All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Good
  • Missing

• If the results don't scream: "Do this again!" Try something new.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Results

• He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.

  

  William Gurney Benham
  • Prayer
  • Cease