Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Benjamin Franklin

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• I am healthy and happy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • History
  • Small
  • Politics

• Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Find

• When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Different
  • Black
  • You

• I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Man
  • Action

• Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Young

• I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.

  

  Iman
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Always

• Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • People
  • True
  • Jealousy

• I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Home
  • Worry
  • New Years

• Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Death

• If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Working
  • Now
  • Gone

• The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Ideas
  • Genius

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Help
  • Model

• Obviously, Wham! made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

  

  George Michael
  • Celebrity
  • Musician
  • Confident

• If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.”

  

  Abdelkader El Djezairi
  • Knowledge
  • Mercy
  • Importance

• Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Interesting

• No one reads anything. They just look at images.

  

  Jonathan Anderson

• Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

  

  Benjamin Franklin