Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes

I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.

Benjamin Earl King

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• I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Game
  • Play
  • Getting Better

• I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Beginning
  • Design
  • Jewelry

• Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Rude

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Way
  • Passion

• I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Kind
  • Sweet
  • Villain

• Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Life
  • God
  • Rest

• One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Good
  • Day
  • Practice

• The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Relationship
  • Baby

• As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Love
  • Fall

• It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Mistake

• Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Deep

• Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

  

  Algernon Sidney

• Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• J'ai embrassé l'aube d'été.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

  

  Peter Bergen

• The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

  

  Charles Evers

• To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

  

  Brassaï
  • Photography
  • Explain
  • Suggest

• During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

  

  Bernhard Goetz
  • Time

• All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Children
  • Home
  • Struggle

• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Government
  • Bureaucrats
  • Human Stupidity

• Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Habit

• I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.

  

  Benjamin Earl King