Benjamin Rush Quotes

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

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• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Work
  • Sports

• Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • Know
  • Wave
  • Can

• I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Relationship

• In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Hands
  • Romantic
  • Cigarette

• It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Secret
  • Honest
  • Ironic

• Only good questions deserve good answers.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Answers
  • Questions

• Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

  

  Billy Joel
  • British
  • Arabia
  • Lawrence

• Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Stupid

• Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

  

  John Ensign
  • Enemy
  • Agree
  • Percent

• Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Remember
  • Communion

• The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Soul
  • Man

• I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.

  

  Euan Uglow
  • Sensation
  • Manifest
  • Find Out

• Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • Absolutely
  • Existed

• My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • English
  • Mother`s

• Brutality creates respect.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Respect
  • Creates
  • Brutality

• Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Schools
  • Mother`s
  • Seeds