Benjamin Quotes

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

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.

I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

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.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.

When God's finger points, God's hand will open the door.

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.

The work of memory collapses time.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

I'm a vegan, but I like to look good, too.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us".

Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.