Quotes of: Benjamin-franklin Keyword

Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the woman's role is particularly important. How can we ever think that the female sex is inferior when we see the essential responsibility God has given wom...

William Wilberforce

Officer Franklin: I see guys like you in here every fuckin' day. Officer Garden: Every fuckin' day! Officer Franklin: Yeah let's all go to Vegas and get really fucked up! Officer Garden: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Officer Franklin: Let's go steal a cop car be...

The Hangover

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Pete du Pont

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

Daisy: I wanna remember us just as we are now.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

[Offering Mrs. Robinson a coat hanger] Benjamin: Wood? Mrs. Robinson: What? Benjamin: Wood or wire? They have both.

The Graduate

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

Mr. Daws: Did you know that I was struck by lightning seven times?

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Queenie: Poor child, he got the worst of it. Come out white.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Daisy: Loving you is worth everything to me... Daisy: I have to go pee.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Muita gente fala que é preciso aprender com o exemplo dos pais e dos professores e coisa e tal. Pode até ser! Não foi o que aconteceu comigo, mas pode ser! Só acho que estão deixando de colocar um fator importante nessa soma de quem nos influenc...

Em memória

Wir sind das Volk!" Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die uns ohnmächtig ...

Freiheit. Ein Plädoyer

Krebs, who knew some Russian and at one stage in his career had been embraced by Stalin, was "a smooth, surviving type." And so, with almost incredible effrontery, he tried to talk to Chuikov as an equal, opening the conversation with the general com...

Barbarossa

Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was ad...

10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said

Besides (said he) do you not observe what a keen Edge Christian Faith puts upon the ill-nature of Divines, when they are disputing about matters of Religion? 'Tis common for Philosophers, Lawyers, Physicians, &c. to differ about matters which concern...

An account of the growth of deism in England

A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the problems of the world has steadily improved. If there is a battle today somewhere on the planet, we experience it almost as if we were there. During ...

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

- When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday. - Peruvian Marching Powder. A stimulant that has the extraordinary effect that the more you do, the more you laugh out of context. - When everything you laugh at is miserable an...

The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we ar...

The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also be a modern malady. Specialization, when taken too far and allowed to define who and what we are, becom...

It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life

While the Zionists try to make the rest of the World believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn't even enter their heads to buil...

Mein Kampf