Ben Carson Quotes

If we know human anatomy and we are reasonably intelligent, he assumes that we can figure out how to do almost anything.

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• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Science
  • Body
  • Human

• I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Time
  • Great
  • Ride

• There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Doing
  • Movies

• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Honor

• People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Words
  • Jesus

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• I had 12 years in the Army before I ever faced combat.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Years
  • Army
  • Combat

• When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • School
  • Play
  • Down

• There's nothing good about divorce.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Divorce

• Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Idea
  • Organization
  • Social

• I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Today
  • Want
  • Know

• If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.

  

  Larry David
  • Would
  • Miserable
  • Still

• But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Afraid
  • Shadows
  • Enlightened

• When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Tired

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • May
  • Faith
  • Intelligent

• If we know human anatomy and we are reasonably intelligent, he assumes that we can figure out how to do almost anything.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Intelligent