Ben Carson Quotes

It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!

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• Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Science
  • Discipline

• Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Attention
  • Perfect
  • Health

• I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Family
  • Team
  • English

• Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • World
  • Important
  • Me

• Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Choice

• Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Ants

• I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Voice
  • Reach
  • Social Media

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Own
  • My Own
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Happy
  • Bear
  • Exchange

• You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Work
  • High
  • You

• I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Woman
  • Service
  • Sacrifice

• Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Different
  • Play
  • Problem

• No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Questions
  • Rights

• Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Good
  • Sex

• Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Investment
  • Markets
  • Spectacle

• The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.

  

  Ephraim Mirvis

• I don't want to believe my own hype. I want to stay hungry and stay eager and be the best that I can be.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Believe
  • Want
  • My Own

• I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that led President Barack Obama to ask me to be secretary of state after we ran a really hard primary against each other. It's funny to me, because when I have a position, whether it's first lady, or senator, or secretary of state, and I'm doing the work, I'm really quite popular.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Experience
  • President
  • Judgment

• If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never ceases to provoke, view Israel's mere existence as a continuing act of aggression, then Hezbollah has indeed shown that it can initiate conflict, resist, and survive.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Light

• It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!

  

  Ben Carson