Benjamin Rush Quotes

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

Benjamin Rush

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• I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Me
  • Eyes

• I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Money
  • Business
  • Feeling

• All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Afraid

• Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Nobody
  • Anymore
  • Crowded

• Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Think
  • Race

• Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Detail

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

  

  Vince Gill
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Know
  • Memory
  • Survival

• I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Think
  • Day
  • Audience

• When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Sing
  • Started
  • Maybe

• I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Up
  • Way
  • You

• If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • She

• In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Power
  • Song
  • Freedom

• Few things are more shocking to those who practice the arts of success than the frank description of those arts.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Success
  • Practice

• Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.

  

  Edward Young

• Der Staat muss fördern und darf nicht einschränken. In diesem Sinne muss er Gärtner sein und nicht Zaun. Wir sollten den Menschen zutrauen, dass sie sich engagieren und Verantwortung übernehmen wollen.

  

  Angela Merkel

• I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

  

  Michael Apted
  • World
  • Wanted
  • Second

• The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.

  

  Barbara Bergmann
  • Women
  • War
  • Liberation

• I understood the power of Heinz since I was a kid, and I started to work for my father selling food to restaurants.

  

  Nelson Peltz
  • Work
  • Power
  • Father

• With thy coming Melody was come. This was thy lot, to feel, create, bestow, And that immeasurable life to know From which the fleshly self falls shrivelled, dead, A seed primeval that has forests bred.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life

• As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • War
  • United States
  • Established