Benjamin Quotes
We accept the cures, with the promise of future struggles, in defiance of death.
If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.
Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at a park.
It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.
Humility is recognizing we can't give anything to God that He hasn't already given to us.
Don't waste your time complaining, use your energy to create a solution. Even a 10% resolution is progress.
Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don't be a courage thief.
Don't stare at the past or you'll walk right by today's opportunity. Today is God's gift to you.
Divided attention destroys best intentions. Singular focus is the friend to success.
As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.
Don’t settle for greatness. There’s room for exceeding greatness if you can conceive the dream.
Never allow your head to be buried in the grave of the fearful, mediocrity, and purposeless. Get up and begin to produce something great with your life. Stand out and stand tall.
We are the subject of God's blessing, but He is the source. Anything good in your life came from Him.
Try smiling at people, you never know how one smile can affect their day.
It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business of the judge begins
It's not what happens to you but your response to it that will either make you better or bitter.
Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.
Animal? As in lion and tiger and chipmunk? Who's he kidding?
Locating God’s Word that describes the true picture of your future is the key that unlocks the mystery of the Word, which is called Dream.
The severing of his limbs and subsequent cauterizing of the wounds was not the most pleasurable part, no." His mad grin stretched, it seemed, from ear to ear.
Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.
Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.
If you want to know my personality, look through my bedroom window and see how I act.
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.
I guess 'joint' would imply two people had ownership, which, thanks Life, is simply no longer the case.
American socialism had lost momentum even before the war. (Socialist leader Norman Thomas received 885, 000 votes in his 1932 run for the presidency, but only 187, 500 in 1936.)
My dear Keats go on, don't despair, collect incidents, study characters, read Shakespeare and trust in Providence.
On a wing and a prayer." (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).
Tragedy is the driver of innovation, forcing man to move on and overcome the bonds which hold us back through the ever-present fear.
The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.
Growing your leadership capacity demands personal effectiveness. Being effective is the ability to do the right thing at all times, no matter the cost.
