Bob Benson Quotes

When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.

Bob Benson

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• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Human
  • Forget

• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Age
  • Diversity

• I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Soul
  • Career
  • Thought

• You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Training

• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Done
  • Water
  • Tree

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Success
  • Had
  • Disadvantages

• Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Government
  • Economics

• 'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Success
  • Understanding
  • Failure

• Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Innocent
  • Privacy

• We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Courage
  • Confront

• Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • World
  • Kids
  • War

• Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Nature
  • Land

• Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Snow

• Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Fear
  • Insecurity

• We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up

• I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Leadership

• The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Up
  • Good
  • Spiritual

• I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • People
  • Stop
  • Late

• Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.

  

  Frank Gaffney
  • Life
  • American
  • Partner

• The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Food

• When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.

  

  Bob Benson
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Answers