Ben Carson Quotes

We are capable of doing even better things than we believe we are, if we challenge each other to do it.

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• Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Want
  • Party
  • Care

• I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Chance

• Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.

  

  Maluma
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Watch

• The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • History
  • Tell

• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Dark

• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Being
  • Nation
  • Unfortunate

• I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • You
  • Doing
  • Will

• Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Great
  • Honesty

• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Questions

• Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Religious
  • Target
  • Radical

• I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Think
  • Thought
  • Resolution

• Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Education
  • Party
  • Health

• I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Seriously
  • Stardom

• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • Choice
  • Writer

• I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Up
  • Missing
  • Nothing

• I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Happy
  • High
  • Perfect

• My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

  

  Donald Tusk

• Everything's pretty consistent in the industry, you know. There's a couple of naysayers, whatever, people who don't agree. But for the most part a lot of people believe in the new class of MC's that coming to the game.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Believe
  • Game

• Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

  

  Billy Rose
  • Believe
  • Sea
  • Moon

• I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Believe
  • Forgotten
  • Station

• We are capable of doing even better things than we believe we are, if we challenge each other to do it.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Believe
  • Challenge