Benjamin Franklin Quotes
It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
Quotes to Explore
-
Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
-
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
-
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
-
Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
-
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
-
Be who you are and be that well.
-
I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
-
Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
-
Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
-
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
-
I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
-
I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
-
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
-
As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
-
I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
-
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
-
Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
-
God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.
-
I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
-
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
-
If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
-
It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
