Benjamin Rush Quotes

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

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• When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Wind
  • Teenager

• Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Success
  • Political
  • Moments

• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Never stop fighting till the fight is done.

  

  Eliot Ness
  • Done
  • Stop
  • Fighting

• Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Done
  • Violent
  • Younger

• The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesn’t. They can build up fighters or knock them down.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Media
  • Make
  • Boxer

• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Does

• What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

  

  Epictetus
  • Things
  • Opinions
  • Disturbs

• You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

  

  William Hurt
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Promise

• O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • God
  • Soul
  • Thirsts

• Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • Worst
  • Love Is

• Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

  

  Plutarch
  • Breath
  • Pottage
  • Hesiod

• I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • German
  • Times
  • Reflect

• I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.

  

  William Albert Allard
  • Believe
  • Special
  • Photograph

• He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Reason
  • Habit
  • Ties

• Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Night
  • Old Man
  • My Time

• When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Time
  • Music
  • Characteristics

• Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Perfect
  • Mirror
  • Humble

• If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be.

  

  Willow Smith
  • People

• It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.

  

  Arlene Francis
  • Differences
  • Colors
  • Races

• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Spirits
  • Remedies
  • Limb