B. C. Forbes Quotes

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

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• When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • College

• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Blessed

• Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Yourself

• These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Embrace

• Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • My Life

• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Money
  • Love

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Fun

• I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• I've got a clear line between work and real life.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Better

• The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Real
  • Think
  • Growth

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.

  

  W. Arthur Lewis
  • Free
  • Progress

• I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Years
  • Television
  • Something

• Previous perjured answers he gave under oath in a sexual harassment lawsuit.

  

  Paula Jones
  • Oath
  • Harassment
  • Lawsuit

• Once in a while you get people that maybe because of economic reasons, or have a social network, they get attracted. But it's a very tiny percent so that when we look at, you know, who are pastors and who are the head clergy of these congregations, they're overwhelmingly white, just a few African Americans, and those folks are usually called to what were formerly white congregations, or they started interracial church from the get-go.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Church
  • African Americans
  • Pastors

• One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister of England. We were located then on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, up several flights of rickety stairs, and he came all the way up those stairs to see Walter [White], largely because of certain kinds of impact, I think, that the Association seemingly was having.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Certain
  • England

• Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Progress