Benjamin Quotes

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.

Until God’s Word becomes a Picture that you can see, it cannot become a reality in which you can feature.

The resources of Africa are greater than the amount of aid it can ever get. Hence, Africa needs to manage its resources prudently and efficiently to minimise its dependence on aid.

The more Africa depends on aid the less opportunities it creates for its people

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.

I loved watching her run around. I was in love with the innocence of dogs, the purity of their affection. They didn’t know enough to hide their feelings. They existed. A dog was a dog.

Anyone can stay up late, but only the disciplined can get up early.

Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor

Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.p 60

If you wouldn't get up early for it, you shouldn't stay up late to do it.

What is it with you and that book?"Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.

It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.

They’re always wrong in the movies.

What saddens me most is that some poor woman out there has to be Garth's wife. And his three children -- oh, his poor three children. What a despicable human being this guy is.

It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.

When you're all dressed up and no place to go.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Logic is neither a science nor an art but a dodge.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

News is the first rough draft of history.

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

A wonderful stream is the River Time As it runs through the realms of Tears With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme As it blends with the ocean of Years.

There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis of details. I often say that one must permit oneself and quite advisedly and deliberately a certain margin of misstatement.

One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you’ve got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.

There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope.

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.

The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.

I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.

Great lives never go out they go on.

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

Writing a book is not a small undertaking, but God placed it on my heart to trust Him with such a project.

Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.