Top 100 A.c. Benson Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About A.c. Benson

#1. Benson just stares at me. "Could you do anything ... I don't know, supernatural when you were little?"
"Yeah, I made the glass on a snake's cage disappear right before my acceptance letter from Hogwarts arrived."
Benson just raises an eyebrow at me.

Aprilynne Pike

#2. When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

Lee Benson

#3. It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.

Ezra Taft Benson

#4. Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.

Ezra Taft Benson

#5. People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

Anna Benson

#6. My husband has a gift for reaching out to people in need. I always look over and see him connecting to someone who needs to talk or needs some support.

Jodi Benson

#7. Any Christian constitutionalist who retreats from this battle jeopardizes his life here and hereafter. Seldom has so much responsibility hung on so few, so heavily; but our numbers are increasing, and we who have been warned have a responsibility to warn our neighbor.

Ezra Taft Benson

#8. A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.

Robert Benson

#9. We have a sacred responsibility to fulfill the threefold mission of the Church - first, to teach the gospel to the world; second, to strengthen the membership of the Church wherever they may be; third, to move forward the work of salvation for the dead.

Ezra Taft Benson

#10. What does the Atonement have to do with missionary work? Any time we experience the blessings of the Atonement in our lives, we cannot help but have a concern for the welfare of others ... A great indicator of one's personal conversion is the desire to share the gospel with others.

Ezra Taft Benson

#11. Anyone can talk,
but to listen is a gift,
we should all exchange

J. Benson

#12. They were not spontaneous people. They were born with too great a love of words, a passion for drama at the expense of truth, and a habit of overweighting common life with romance.

Stella Benson

#13. When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.

Ezra Taft Benson

#14. I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.

Ashley Benson

#15. I set fire to his bed one night while he was in it. I'd be obliged if you wouldn't mention that, though, as they never found out who did it, but the police got involved and things were rather unpleasant at school for a while.

Clara Benson

#16. A man who reads at all, reads just as he eats, sleeps, and takes exercise,
because he likes it; and that is probably the best reason that can
be given for the practice.

Arthur Christopher Benson

#17. Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.

Ezra Taft Benson

#18. I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

Harry Benson

#19. A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.

Ezra Taft Benson

#20. My soundless feet shall fly among the runners
Through the red thunders of a Zeppelin raid,
My still voice cheer the Anti-Aircraft gunners,
The fires shall glare - but I shall cast no shade.

Stella Benson

#21. A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

#22. I pretty much like all music except for country. I'm not a big fan of country.

Ashley Benson

#23. Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Ezra Taft Benson

#24. Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

Ezra Taft Benson

#25. No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ezra Taft Benson

#26. I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

A. C. Benson

#27. People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

A. C. Benson

#28. The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

A. C. Benson

#29. Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

A. C. Benson

#30. I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

A. C. Benson

#31. One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

A. C. Benson

#32. Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

A. C. Benson

#33. I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

A. C. Benson

#34. A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

A. C. Benson

#35. Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

A. C. Benson

#36. I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

A. C. Benson

#37. Man, an animal that makes bargains.

A. C. Benson

#38. I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

A. C. Benson

#39. Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

Robert Hugh Benson

#40. Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

A. C. Benson

#41. People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

A. C. Benson

#42. When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

A. C. Benson

#43. I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

A. C. Benson

#44. As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

A. C. Benson

#45. There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

A. C. Benson

#46. The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

A. C. Benson

#47. It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

A. C. Benson

#48. Always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

Stella Benson

#49. I made some jokes about weed, got some laughs, made some more jokes, got some more laughs; next thing you know, I'm telling a lot of jokes about it.

Doug Benson

#50. True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

Ezra Taft Benson

#51. Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

Ezra Taft Benson

#52. When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive

Ezra Taft Benson

#53. I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

Robby Benson

#54. People do not lose respect for a man when he's down. They lose it when he refuses to get up.

Robert Benson

#55. It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

Ezra Taft Benson

#56. Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.

Ezra Taft Benson

#57. Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.

Ezra Taft Benson

#58. I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

Anna Benson

#59. It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

A. C. Benson

#60. Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.

Robert Benson

#61. Kate Benson is an expert in applying NLP in the education sector. She is thoroughly organised, highly skilled and the love for what she teaches comes across in her presentations. I guarantee you will have a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

Richard Bandler

#62. I am a follower of Jesus. My husband really brought me to the Lord when I was 18 and I am so lucky to have a platform through the studio.

Jodi Benson

#63. Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

Doug Benson

#64. The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others.

Ezra Taft Benson

#65. The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

Ezra Taft Benson

#66. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means "hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition." It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

Ezra Taft Benson

#67. Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Ezra Taft Benson

#68. The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress ... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.

Herbert Benson

#69. Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

Margaret Benson

#70. Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

E.F. Benson

#71. We are successful
the moment we start toward
a laudable goal

J. Benson

#72. If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

Herbert Benson

#73. I'm sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I'm waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there's a hitchhiker with a sign and it says, 'Pick me up, and you can drive in the carpool lane.' I got to tell you, he was kind of smelly, but he was a good conversationalist.

Doug Benson

#74. 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.

George Benson

#75. You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.

Stella Benson

#76. Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. The answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways.

Ezra Taft Benson

#77. The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

Stella Benson

#78. I've done a variety of projects in different areas of the entertainment industry.

Jodi Benson

#79. Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Ezra Taft Benson

#80. To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

Ezra Taft Benson

#81. I know there's a lot of nasty humor directed at celebrities, but my feeling is, in most cases, they deserve it.

Doug Benson

#82. If the law can be broken it will. Anyone who breaks the law is a risk. You can break the law. So you see, I have to take you in for questioning. This produce stand has an ominous future.

Benson Bruno

#83. Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.

Ezra Taft Benson

#84. The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

Ezra Taft Benson

#85. If you've got a coach that overlooks the problems, then you've got problems.

Tom Benson

#86. If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

#87. Q: Why do you blog?
A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequently updated and more interactive (as well as that bit more interesting, I hope), but also because I think the world des-perately needs to hear my opinions, and I like to oblige.

Ophelia Benson

#88. A well begun is half ended.

A. C. Benson

#89. There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.

Ezra Taft Benson

#90. I've had a lot of different companies. I've been in banking and automobiles and real estate and a lot of things.

Tom Benson

#91. The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

A. C. Benson

#92. I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

Ezra Taft Benson

#93. He exhibited three portraits, each a masterpiece, which killed every picture within range.

E.F. Benson

#94. The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

Stella Benson

#95. A customer facing crucial decisions:
What should I wipe myself with? What should I brush with? His personal hygiene was deteriorating rapidly as he stared at the rows of possibilities, sweating profusely. Would he ever bathe again?

Benson Bruno