Ben Carson Quotes

Evolutionism is to think that a hurricane blowing through a junkyard could somehow assemble a fully equipped and flight-ready 747.

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• I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Small
  • Training

• In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Think
  • You
  • End

• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Experience
  • History

• 'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Men
  • Love
  • May

• The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Matter

• To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Disagree
  • Disagreeable

• There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire. But so far, I've continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Time
  • Me
  • Myself

• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Way
  • Bible
  • Routine

• I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Period

• I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Learning

• Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Long
  • Character
  • Me

• The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Women
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Safe
  • Meat
  • Ever

• Desire is the essence of a man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Essence

• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  

  E. B. White
  • Play
  • Fall
  • Find

• Rue Froidevaux seemed to go on forever, as if the distances stretched to infinity.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Forever

• “Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn’t working.”

  

  Adolph Rupp
  • Defense
  • Offense
  • Nights

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• Dealing with wedding stuff is a bit of a double-edged sword - it seems that divorcees are expected to either burn it all on the front lawn, tears silently coursing down their faces, or keep the stuff, shrine-like, concealed somewhere in their homes.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Tears
  • Wedding

• To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.

  

  Vance Havner
  • World
  • Done
  • Character

• When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

  

  Stéphane Charbonnier
  • Violence
  • Activists
  • Pretext

• Evolutionism is to think that a hurricane blowing through a junkyard could somehow assemble a fully equipped and flight-ready 747.

  

  Ben Carson