Benjamin Rush Quotes

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Benjamin Rush

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• In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Men
  • Women
  • Employees

• It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Free
  • Sin
  • Clean

• I can't do anything in moderation.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Anything
  • Moderation

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • May
  • Process
  • Notes

• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • First
  • Possible
  • Overcome

• I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Little

• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Great
  • May
  • Dog

• My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Age
  • Pretty

• One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Women
  • Favorite
  • Little

• It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Power
  • Help
  • Purpose

• I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Mind

• It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Matter

• Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Interesting
  • Fashion

• The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People
  • Real
  • Evil

• At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Socialism

• Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Revolution

• You never know when or where you will find the next new model, but you can bet someone from Ford Models will be looking.

  

  Eileen Ford
  • Model

• One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Development
  • Conscience
  • Higher

• If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Alone
  • Bath
  • Fleas

• The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Revolution
  • American War