Ben Nelson Quotes

When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.

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• Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Internet
  • Tweet
  • Developments

• My career is an open book, but my life is not.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Book
  • Career

• One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Road

• You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Me
  • See

• My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Stuck
  • Rut

• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Possible
  • Uncertainty

• I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Love
  • Basketball
  • Size

• Many support what I am doing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Support

• Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • You
  • Happiness
  • By-Product

• You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Running
  • Opinion

• Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Uncle

• ‘She is a goddess,’ said Ambrose, drunkenly and stoutly. ‘…And she wants me. She’s the pursuer…She’s the epitome of woman, not,’ he said, ‘not a second-hand bundle of coy erogeneity draped,’ he said, ‘in an all-too-diaphanous robe,’ he said, ‘of pudeur.’

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • She
  • Hand
  • Goddess

• Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

  

  Edward Young

• Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Monster

• Cuando rompo algunas de las cadenas que me encadenan, siento que me disminuyo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I love dark chocolate. I love it.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

  

  Linford Christie
  • Country
  • Star
  • Search

• I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Dream
  • Teenager

• I'm a really big Fiona Apple fan, and more times than not, when I put her on in the car, people are surprised. I think they associate her less as a songwriter and more as a '90s MTV generation artist.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • People
  • Car

• I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Quality
  • Spiritual
  • Something

• I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Desire

• I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got.

  

  Phil Niekro
  • Good
  • Organization

• When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.

  

  Ben Nelson