Benjamin Rush Quotes

Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."

Benjamin Rush

• God
• Congress
• Sins
• Whispering
• Great Britain

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• I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Process

• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Future
  • Vision

• I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

  

  Sally Field
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Dialogue

• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Business
  • Driving
  • Horizon

• It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Speech

• If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Team

• And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?

  

  Rachel True
  • Time
  • School
  • Learn

• We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Challenge

• If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time

• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Travel
  • Clouds

• Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Single
  • Universe

• I obey nature, I never presume to command her. The first principal in art is to copy what one sees.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Art
  • Nature

• The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

  

  Aristotle
  • Education
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• I seem to play in spurts. Somebody will tell me about a cool game, then I'll run out and play for a bit, but then I'm done.

  

  Matt Cain
  • Done
  • Game
  • Cool

• We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms. That is not how we survived the 20th century. Nor will it serve in the 21st.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

  

  Matthew Fox
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Single

• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Great
  • Art
  • Effort

• Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

  

  Archer John Porter Martin
  • Work
  • Done

• Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Music
  • God
  • Country

• You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• We are in the interstices. In the intervals. We are that which moves between the spaces. Which conjures up the spaces.

  

  Gabriel Josipovici
  • Moves
  • Spaces
  • Interstices

• Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • God
  • Congress
  • Sins