Jack Benny Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
-
But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
-
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
-
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
-
I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.
-
There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.
-
I learned life from some good teachers.
-
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
-
Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.
-
I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
-
In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.
-
If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.
-
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
-
Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.
-
IRENE ROSENBAUM: ...'you Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause'...
-
If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.
-
Obama White House rescued the economy from the worst recession.
-
Why then, if these books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the bible regain the place it once held as a school book ? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the sacred book, that is thus early impressed, lasts long; and, probably, if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.
-
Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.
-
It's not the way it's supposed to be here, it's never been close to this since I've been here. Hopefully, once the new guys take over we can get things going and get back to where it used to be.
-
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
-
I have a lot of great fans. A lot of fans have cosplayed as Sweet Tooth, which I thought was really cool.
-
Bob: This is rather strange for me, I'm on the major network. mouths ABC