Ben Carson Quotes
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
-
I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
-
I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?
-
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
-
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-
We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
-
Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
-
I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
-
It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
-
The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
-
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
-
Those who live are those who fight.
-
At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
-
He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
-
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
-
I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
-
The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
-
The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.
-
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
-
It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.
-
We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.
-
My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.
-
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
-
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
