Benjamin Whichcote Quotes

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Benjamin Whichcote

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• I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Done
  • Moving
  • Moving On

• If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Truth
  • Like

• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Self
  • Conquer
  • Brainy

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Perfect
  • Myself
  • See

• Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • America
  • Year
  • Three

• Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Like
  • Green
  • Environmental

• I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Opportunity
  • Environment
  • Speak

• I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Movie
  • Drama
  • Will

• Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Work
  • Home
  • Child

• Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

  

  Dale Turner
  • Quality
  • Influence
  • Shadow

• Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Kind
  • Eyes
  • Television

• I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Myself
  • Will
  • Later

• Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Why

• I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Great
  • Day
  • Math

• Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

  

  Jacob Hacker
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Believe
  • Day
  • End

• The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Forces

• My beautiful son... I can't wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him.

  

  Jencarlos Canela
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Son

• No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Government
  • Learned

• There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Done
  • May

• We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Spiritual
  • Animal
  • Internet

• Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

  

  Benjamin Whichcote