Top 100 Benjamin's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.
Rebecca Solnit
#3. I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.
Chris Roberson
#4. Benjamin's expression turned regretful. "You're right. I'm sorry." Jason couldn't believe his ears. His younger brother was actually apologizing for something. "I appreciate that," Jason finally said.
John O'Riley
#5. An origin, I repeat, is not confined to the past: it is a whirlwind, in Benjamin's very fine image, a chasm in the present. And we are drawn into this abyss. That is why the present is, par excellence, the thing that is left unlived.
Anonymous
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. He's like a sunflower, Grace. He leans into me as if I were the source of all light.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#16. Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
Benjamin Whichcote
#17. Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#18. My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#19. Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.
Benjamin Barber
#20. Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
Benjamin Franklin
#21. You fight yourself, Zach. And you keep fighting yourself. And it's killing you because you're fighting the best part of yourself.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#22. This is the moment - this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That's what our job is. It's not about impressing people. It's not about getting the next job. It's about contributing something.
Benjamin Zander
#23. During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity's entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well
Walter Benjamin
#24. I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#25. Freud's fundamental thought, on which these remarks are based, is formulated by the assumption that consciousness comes into being at the site of a memory trace.
Walter Benjamin
#26. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.
Benjamin Franklin
#27. Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin
#28. And then everyone in the room started laughing. My dad and my uncles and aunts - if there's one thing they knew how to do, it was laugh. My dad called that sort of behavior whistling in the dark.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#29. Maybe some people were born with the fame gene. Like race or sexual orientation or X-Men mutations, it's simply who you are, and there isn't anything you can do about it. Perhaps it's why some people are drawn to crowds and cameras while others shrink away.
Benjamin Svetkey
#30. Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
Benjamin Haydon
#31. Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?
Benjamin Franklin
#32. I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
#33. Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
Benjamin Hoff
#34. All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
Benjamin Haydon
#35. I felt like I was falling in love but maybe not just with her, with something else, another world, but maybe that's always what falling in love is like.
Benjamin Markovits
#36. I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy ... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian heritage; he's absolutely striking.
Sandra Bullock
#37. When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.
Richard Benjamin
#39. I was darker than he was. And I'm not just talking about our skin coloring. He told me I had a tragic vision of life. "That's why you like Spider-Man.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#40. It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
Benjamin Franklin
#41. It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.
Benjamin Zander
#42. There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.
Benjamin Crump
#43. she knew the effort it took to keep one's exterior self together, upright, when everything inside was in pieces, broken beyond repair. One touch, one warm, compassionate hand, could shatter that hard-won perfect exterior. And then it would take years and years to restore it. So
Melanie Benjamin
#44. People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.
Andre Benjamin
#46. I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#47. He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
Benjamin Franklin
#49. The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
#50. Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#51. The investment world nevertheless has enough liars, cheaters, and thieves to keep Satan's check-in clerks frantically busy for decades to come.
Benjamin Graham
#52. Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.
Jennifer Grant
#53. There's not a single Democrat here. It's almost like CPAC invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Well, we could have had Hillary here, but we couldn't find a foreign nation to foot the bill.
Ted Cruz
#54. See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I'm really feeling. And it doesn't. It's a shortcut.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#55. WARD: I'll be home in time for dinner, honey.
JUNE: Alright - I'm pregnant - Have a fine day at work, dear.
WARD exits ... WARD reenters.
JUNE: Did you forget something, dear?
WARD: What did you say?
JUNE: I asked if you'd forgotten anything -
Benjamin R. Smith
#56. I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.
Benjamin Guggenheim
#57. That's right you little fucktart, she thought. Time to eat shit and die.
Benjamin R. Smith
#58. The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
Benjamin Franklin
#59. The funny thing is, I sometimes think my mother loves my father more than he loves her. Does that make sense?"
"Yeah, I guess so. Maybe. Is love a contest?"
"What does that mean?"
"Maybe everyone loves differently. Maybe that's all that matters.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#61. I'm not a good kid. Yeah, look, I'm just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.
A lousy piece of paper. That's me.
A piece of paper that's waiting to be torn up.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#62. I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.
Benjamin Graham
#63. Hamish Alexander stood on Benjamin the Great's flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power.
David Weber
#64. 'it's not that you are too small, my little chick,but rather that the world is too big.
Melanie Benjamin
#65. He's got all the equipment of manhood save the parts that matter.
Benjamin Whitmer
#66. The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.
Andre Benjamin
#67. America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well.
Benjamin Carson
#68. What do you love, Ari? What do you really love?"
"I love the desert. God, I love the desert."
"It's so lonely."
"Is it?"
Dante didn't understand. I was unknowable.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#69. Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.
Benjamin Van Roy
#70. There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
Benjamin Carson
#71. And that made me realize this: Everyone's story is different, all the time. No one is ever really together, even if it looks for a while like they
Ali Benjamin
#72. There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.
Benjamin Franklin
#73. He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors
Benjamin Franklin
#74. A guy who loves his truck needs other people to admire his driving machine. Yeah, needs. That's the truth. I don't know why, but that's the way truck guys are.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#75. There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin
#76. Love can heal the sickness of all malice by forgiving others of preconceived hatred and prejudice.
Colishia S. Benjamin
#77. But the thing is that I'm in love with Rafael's story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael's journal, it's as if I can see myself. It's better than a mirror.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#78. It's like this. Terror might make someone kill, but love will make someone die. People die for love. They would give up anything for love, even their life. And don't you see, that's a denial of the most basic of all human instincts: survival.
Benjamin Percy
#79. Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#80. It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#81. I said Ted Cruz has been lying because if you say something that isn't true, and you say it over and over again, and you know that it's not true, there's no other word for it.
Benjamin Carson
#82. A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth ... It establishes the equality of [humanity] ...
Benjamin Rush
#83. Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
Benjamin Franklin
#84. There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.
Benjamin Graham
#86. I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.
Benjamin Watson
#87. But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
Benjamin Tucker
#88. Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.
Benjamin Clementine
#90. The kindest reaction Hamilton received was from Benjamin Franklin. He was asleep. In contrast, Hamilton's ally James Madison was alert - but with worry in his eyes and woe written across his face.7
Mike Lee
#91. One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.
Jill Lepore
#92. But Mr. Davy would not become a doctor, for a copy of Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry fell into his hands. Soon enough, Davy was discharged from Dr. Borlase's service because of his habit of performing explosive experiments.
Benjamin Wiker
#93. Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still
and they obeyed.
Benjamin Franklin
#94. I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'
John Benjamin Hickey
#95. What is a butterfly? At best
He's but a caterpiller drest.
The gaudy Fop's his picture just.
Benjamin Franklin
#96. Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.
Lyn Nofziger
#97. Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
Benjamin Franklin
#98. Just like that - in one apocalyptic moment - simple and beautiful. A birth. But also a kind of death. Like lightning in a storm. In one flash of light, the whole desert was lit, and you could see the universe. That's what she had seen - the universe in the hands of a child feeling the face of a man.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#100. My father nodded. 'Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem
for you anyway
is that you're in love with him.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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