Ben Carson Quotes

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

Ben Carson

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• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Down

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Foreign
  • Stunts

• My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Respect
  • Kindness

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • World
  • Mind
  • Funny

• When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Police

• Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Years
  • Hero
  • Many

• I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Simple
  • Football
  • Same

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Time
  • Important
  • Age

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.

  

  James Howell
  • Life

• I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Work
  • Fear

• Fear not the thunder, little one.It's weather, simply weather;It's friendly giants full of funClapping their hands together.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Together
  • Fear

• Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Fear
  • Peace

• In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was walking and meditating, I heard the voice of God. I've heard that voice many times; it's familiar to me, and there's no way that I can fail to understand it's His voice because I'm familiar with it.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • World
  • God
  • Fear

• Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Fear