Top 100 Benjamin Mee Quotes
#1. When I saw the Cameron Crowe film We Bought A Zoo, it got me to thinking about how our lives are structured the same way as the zoo that was purchased by Benjamin Mee totally changed
Mike Vardy
#2. He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
Benjamin Whichcote
#3. Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
Benjamin Whichcote
#4. As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Benjamin Disraeli
#7. 61I am prepared to ... assert that inspiration has something in common with a convulsion, and that every sublime thought is accompanied by a more or less violent nervous shock which has its repercussions in the very core of the brain.
Walter Benjamin
#8. Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of ...
Benjamin Franklin
#9. Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.
Andre Benjamin
#10. To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you
Benjamin Disraeli
#11. You know what the worst thing about adults is?"
"No."
"They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#12. To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Benjamin Franklin
#15. The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the time. And I think of you. Always, Dante P.S.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#16. I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
Benjamin Moser
#17. I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn't say it, because I wasn't sure it was true.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#18. Bob Riley, a kind soul who "treads lightly in this world," is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.
Benjamin
#19. I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like feeling things.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#20. Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
Benjamin Franklin King Jr.
#21. I was harder than Dante. I think I'd tried to hide that hardness from him because I'd wanted him to like me. But now he knew. That I was hard. And maybe that was okay. Maybe he could like the fact that I was hard just as I liked the fact that he wasn't hard.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#22. The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
Benjamin Tucker
#23. Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.
Benjamin Booker
#24. I most resemble Benjamin Button. I evolve. I attach myself to the heartbeat of whatever is going on at that particular time, or I just chart a new path.
J. B. Smoove
#27. If we put a gun to her head she would sing all day. Try it first with a bird, General Benjamin said gently to Alfredo. Like our soprano, they have no capacity to understand authority. The bird doesn't know enough to be afraid and the person holding the gun will only end up looking like a lunatic.
Ann Patchett
#28. Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
Benjamin Disraeli
#30. In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.
Benjamin Franklin
#31. History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#32. Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
#33. O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
Benjamin Franklin
#34. Perhaps in body I am not quite as real as you," he said, then looked alive, making him once again seem real, even though she knew that if she tried to touch him, she could not. "But my thoughts and emotions are as real as yours. My soul, Mia Randall, is as real as yours.
Suzannah Daniels
#36. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
#38. The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
Benjamin Cohen
#39. For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
Benjamin Franklin
#41. I wished it was raining," he said.
"I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#42. Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.
Benjamin Carson
#43. of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Benjamin Franklin
#44. Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
Benjamin Hoff
#45. Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.
Benjamin Graham
#47. It would feel good to work at the Benjamin S. Ross Foundation for Not Eating Fruity Pebbles. But I know there isn't actually anything to rally against for him.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#48. It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
Benjamin Franklin
#51. In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
Benjamin Graham
#52. One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Benjamin Franklin
#54. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin
#55. Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
Benjamin Disraeli
#56. How does one know that, before the first hello? It's a heaviness in the air combined with a lightness of step. It's a slowing down of the past, and a speeding up of the future.
Melanie Benjamin
#57. Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
Benjamin Haydon
#58. I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.
David Cross
#59. Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.
Benjamin Disraeli
#60. He's like a sunflower, Grace. He leans into me as if I were the source of all light.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#61. Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
Benjamin Carson
#62. There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many,
Benjamin Graham
#64. I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!
Benjamin
#66. It's healthy to periodically self examine your life, your goals, your relationships, and ask yourself honestly, am I happy? Am I on the right track?
Benjamin Stone
#67. Successful people inspire me, and I don't mean just in their career but people who have amazing families, or who have made a difference, or followed their dreams.
Benjamin Stone
#68. Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin Disraeli
#69. Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Benjamin Franklin
#70. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
#71. I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.
Andre Benjamin
#72. It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.
Benjamin Hoadly
#73. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
#75. No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
Benjamin Hoff
#76. Take courage, Mortal ... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
Benjamin Franklin
#77. If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.
Benjamin Franklin
#78. I came into the world under the sign of Saturn
the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.
Walter Benjamin
#79. I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.
Benjamin Disraeli
#80. The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ...
The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age ...
Walter Benjamin
#81. 'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
Benjamin Carson
#82. Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion ...
Benjamin Franklin
#84. I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.
Benjamin Carson
#85. Madness doesn't get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.
Benjamin R. Smith
#86. Lord, you're the only one I can truly confide in without you judging me, or throwing dirt back in my face months later.
Colishia S. Benjamin
#88. I had to be the world's biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#90. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli
#91. The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
Benjamin Franklin
#92. Maybe life was just a series of phases - one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I'd be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#93. I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.
Benjamin Franklin
#95. Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
Benjamin Tucker
#96. Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.
Walter Benjamin
#97. Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli
#98. Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.
Clarence Benjamin Jones
#99. I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.
Benjamin Watson
#100. That type of analysis could include data from training staffs and coaching staffs, performance data, and medical data.
Benjamin C. Alamar
